2.1.2 Date Literals

The properties start and end of tasks are datetime types (time aware dates). Python has no datetime literals, therefore datetime are specified as strings. faces converts the string literals to datetimes. The conversion mechanism is quite tolerant and you can specify different date formats. The following are all the same datetimes: "2005-1-16 00:00", "05-1-16 00:00", "16.1.2005 00:00", "16.1.05 00:00", "20050116 00:00", "16/1/2005 00:00", "16/1/05 00:00". If you omit the time part "00:00" is assumed.