I have Bash logic like:
if [ $dueDate = $(date '+%F') ]
then
dueDate=today
else
dueDate="on $(date -d $dueDate '+%B %d')"
fi
Which I find as nice human-friendly feature.
I might be wrong, though, when all those -planning messages are parsed by some tool which can deal only with dates.
Then this issue can be closed and I'll revise my logic in favor of machine-friendly variant instead.
Thanks