Twilio.TIME
The Twilio.TIME built-in field enables Autopilot to understand times expressed by users in different ways and converts to a standard 24-hour time.
Absolute Times
Absolute times are converted from natural language input to the standard date format.
| Example input | Example Output |
| 1PM | 13:00 |
| 10:30 in the morning | 10:30 |
| 8:30 at night | 20:30 |
| 11PM | 23:00 |
Relative Times
Relative times have the following properties:
- Future times are implied by default when missing an indication of past or future.
- UTC is used as the base time zone.
Below are some examples of relative times. For the examples, we provide the current input, the current time when the input is evaluated and the example output.
| Example input | Current Time | Example Output | Notes |
| now | 13:00Z | 13:00Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
| in an hour | 13:00Z | 14:00Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
| in 2 hours | 13:00Z | 15:00Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
| a minute ago | 13:00Z | 12:59Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
| in ten minutes | 13:00Z | 13:10Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
| 15 minutes ago | 13:00Z | 12:45Z | Note that the time will be the UTC time denoted by a 'Z' at the end. |
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