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I'm impressed. I thought I'd try it with `next wednesday at 20 to 3 in the afternoon`. It understood!

It didn't understand if I used `afternon`. Perhaps as an improvement it could try selecting the most likely word from misspellings.

Thanks! Yes we should probably relax a little bit the lexical analysis to cope with typos, thanks for your feedback.

I don't even understand that. What time period is that meant to specify?

20 to 3 in the afternoon = 2:40 PM

Oooh, "twenty minutes until three". I typically use until or shorten it to 'till. But I've seen/heard to as well.

'To' is the most common version in British English.