another idea i had is scripting to give hal the common sense of knowing a past date as "in the past " in , hal knowing the current date ( as is used by the current pc , etc. setting link , and also hal knowing any dates above that would be known as " in the future date of , or the future date ... (in common language when hal talks and mentions dates . )
anyway , just another lightspeed idea i am tossing out their .
