Application is continously confused about dates

[nshern]

I have a bunch of documents that are meeting notes. Each document has metadata with the date of when the meeting was held. When I query the engine it is continuously confused about when the last held meeting was and will give wildly different answers, which are nearly always wrong.

How can I fix this issue and make it look and respect the metadata that contains the date?

[dosubot[bot]]

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Hey @nshern, great to see you back here! Hope you've been doing well.

Based on the information provided, it seems like the issue might be related to the date format in your metadata. The LlamaIndex application expects dates in a specific format, and if the dates in your metadata are not in this format, it could lead to incorrect interpretation.

In the load_data and create_event methods of the GoogleCalendarToolSpec class, the dates are parsed using specific formats. The load_data method expects a string in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD', and the create_event method expects a string in the format 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS'. If your date strings are not in these formats, it could lead to the issues you're experiencing.

To resolve this, you need to ensure that the dates in your metadata are in the correct format before they are passed to these methods. If they are not, you need to convert them to the correct format. Here is a Python function that can help you do this:

from datetime import datetime

def convert_date_format(date_string: str, current_format: str, new_format: str) -> str:
    """Convert a date string from one format to another.

    Args:
        date_string (str): The date string to convert.
        current_format (str): The current format of the date string.
        new_format (str): The new format to convert the date string to.

    Returns:
        str: The date string in the new format.
    """
    date_object = datetime.strptime(date_string, current_format)
    return date_object.strftime(new_format)

You can use this function to convert your dates to the correct format before passing them to the load_data and create_event methods. For example:

date_string = "01-31-2022"  # date in 'MM-DD-YYYY' format
current_format = "%m-%d-%Y"
new_format = "%Y-%m-%d"  # 'YYYY-MM-DD' format

correct_format_date = convert_date_format(date_string, current_format, new_format)

# Now you can pass `correct_format_date` to the `load_data` or `create_event` methods

Please let me know if this resolves your issue or if you need further assistance.

Sources

• llama-index-integrations/tools/llama-index-tools-google/llama_index/tools/google/calendar/base.py

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[nshern]

My dates are already in the suggested format, so this does not help me. Unfortunately.

[dosubot[bot]]

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It seems like this issue requires a deeper look, @logan-markewich could you please lend your expertise?