# 1year (1year.us)

A person says '1year' to mean a span of twelve months. They may want a subscription, a warranty, a deadline, or a look back at what happened in the past year.

## What a model may hear
- time duration literal (programming and database queries): parse it as a numeric value with a unit suffix, often converting to days (365 or 366) or seconds for calculations
- cron or scheduling shorthand (system administration and job schedulers): look for a valid cron expression, fail to parse it, or reject it as malformed
- variable name or identifier (code and configuration files): treat it as a camelCase or flattened variable name, stripping the digit or expecting a defined constant
- domain or URL path segment (web routing and analytics): extract it as a slug, possibly routing to a page about annual plans or filtering data by a one-year window

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "What happened 1year ago?"
  Means: Summarize major news or personal events from twelve months back
  May be taken as: Compute exactly 365 days from today, missing leap years, or search for a literal string '1year' in archives
  Say instead: "Summarize what happened in March 2024, or the twelve months before March 2025"
- Says: "Set a reminder for 1year"
  Means: Alert me on this date next year
  May be taken as: Fail to parse, or set a 365-day timer that drifts a day on leap years
  Say instead: "Set an annual recurring reminder for March 15"
- Says: "Show me the 1year plan"
  Means: Display pricing for an annual subscription
  May be taken as: Search for a product literally named '1year' or return a one-year financial forecast
  Say instead: "Show me the annual subscription pricing"
- Says: "1year warranty"
  Means: A guarantee good for twelve months from purchase
  May be taken as: Calculate warranty expiration as 365 days from manufacture date, not purchase date, or omit regional variations
  Say instead: "A warranty valid for twelve months from the date of purchase"

## Tips
- Spell out 'twelve months' or 'annual' when precision matters more than brevity
- Give an exact start and end date instead of a relative span for historical queries
- Say 'recurring yearly' instead of '1year' for calendar-based repeating events
- Specify 'from purchase date' or 'from today' to anchor the starting point
- Avoid '1year' as a variable name or label in prompts; models may read it as code

## Often confused with
- oneyear: a single word, more likely read as a brand name or identifier
- 1 yr: abbreviated with a space, often parsed as two tokens not one
- 365 days: exact day count, ignores leap years and calendar months
- annual: a full calendar or billing year, not necessarily twelve months from now
- Y1: academic or fiscal year one, a fixed period not a duration
- 1Y: financial notation for a one-year bond or rate, not a general span