{"version":"2.1.38","anchor":"enhanced-elicitation-with-natural-language-date-time-parsing","canonical_anchor":"enhanced-elicitation-with-natural-language-date-time-parsing","heading":"Enhanced Elicitation with Natural Language Date\/Time Parsing","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.38\/e\/enhanced-elicitation-with-natural-language-date-time-parsing","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.38","markdown":"### Enhanced Elicitation with Natural Language Date\/Time Parsing\n\n**What**\n\nMCP elicitation now supports natural language date\/time input with intelligent parsing.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Accepts natural language: \"tomorrow\", \"next Monday\", \"jan 1st 2025\", \"in 2 hours\"\n- Converts to ISO 8601 format automatically\n- Prefers future dates over past dates when ambiguous\n- For dates without times, omits the time component\n- Supports multiple formats: `uri`, `email`, `date`, `date-time`\n- Shows current context (date, time, timezone, day of week) to help parsing\n- Includes `minItems`\/`maxItems` validation for selection elicitations\n- Gracefully handles invalid input with clear error messages\n\n**Evidence**\n\nDate parser prompt (search for `\"You are a date\/time parser\"`)"}