can't teach past dates

[lostbowyer]

I am having trouble teaching ultra hal past dates, if I enter the following declarative: "Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730", ultra hal returns: "Charles messier was born on Thursday, June 26, 2003 . I'll Remind you when this time is near. " how can I get hal to accept and remember past dates?

[Medeksza]

Unfortunetely, whenever Hal sees a date it always goes to the appointment function. I'll make sure that for the next version of Hal, version 5.0, if it says a date that occured in the past it will not call the appointment function.

[lostbowyer]

thanks, it will be helpful to be able to have hal accept the dates as facts instead of appontments.

[metalizer]

it would be cool if we say john was born on 11/11/1982, HAL would remind us that john's anniversary is on 11/11/2003