diff --git a/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/date_time_format_variants.md b/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/date_time_format_variants.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..022666e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/date_time_format_variants.md @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +# Date & Time Format Variants — Guardrails and Fix Pattern + +A focused repair for **ambiguous or mixed date/time formats** across CJK/RTL/Indic/Latin content. Use this page when numeric dates, month names, calendars, or time zones cause retrieval drift or broken citations. + +## What this page is +- A compact, locale-aware repair guide for **date/time parsing → storage → retrieval → reasoning**. +- Concrete steps that **do not require infra changes**. +- Acceptance targets you can measure. + +## When to use +- Queries or snippets contain **ambiguous numeric dates** like `03/04/05`, `04-05-06`, or `110/05/01` (ROC). +- Month/day names switch languages or scripts in the same corpus: `2024年3月4日`, `4 Mar 2024`, `مارس 4 2024`. +- **Eastern Arabic digits**, **full-width digits**, or punctuation appear in dates. +- **Time zone or DST** is missing, or mixes `UTC`, `GMT+8`, `Asia/Taipei`, `Z`. +- Relative phrases like “today / 昨天 / الأسبوع الماضي” appear in docs or queries. + +## Open these first +- Visual map and recovery: [RAG Architecture & Recovery](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md) +- End-to-end retrieval knobs: [Retrieval Playbook](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-playbook.md) +- Why this snippet (traceability schema): [Retrieval Traceability](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md) +- Contract the payload: [Data Contracts](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md) +- Locale drift audit: [locale_drift.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/locale_drift.md) +- Tokenizer issues: [tokenizer_mismatch.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/tokenizer_mismatch.md) +- Digits, width, punctuation: [digits_width_punctuation.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/digits_width_punctuation.md) +- Script mixing within one query: [script_mixing.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/script_mixing.md) + +## Core acceptance +- ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45 +- Coverage of target section ≥ 0.70 +- λ remains **convergent** across 3 paraphrases and 2 seeds +- E_resonance flat on long windows + +--- + +## Map symptoms → structural fixes (Problem Map) + +- **Ambiguous numeric dates** (`03/04/05`, `04-05-06`) + Lock parse locale and calendar in the contract. Store canonical plus original. + → [data-contracts.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md), [retrieval-traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md) + +- **Mixed month/day names across languages** (`3月4日`, `Mar 4`) + Normalize to canonical; add derived fields `year`, `month_num`, `weekday`. + → [retrieval-playbook.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-playbook.md) + +- **Eastern Arabic or full-width digits** (`٠١٢٣`, `２０２４`) + Fold digits and punctuation before parse; keep `orig_text` for audit. + → [digits_width_punctuation.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/digits_width_punctuation.md) + +- **Missing or mixed time zones / DST jumps** + Require IANA zone and offset at storage time; derive `epoch_ms`. + → [locale_drift.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/locale_drift.md) + +- **Calendar variants (ROC 114, Buddhist 2568, week-year ISO-8601)** + Store `calendar` field and canonical Gregorian ISO. Keep both. + → [data-contracts.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md) + +- **Relative phrases in docs or queries** (“today”, “昨天”, “last week”) + Resolve relative time **at index time** (doc clock) and **at query time** (user clock). + → [retrieval-traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md) + +--- + +## 60-second fix checklist (store-agnostic) + +1) **Canonical schema** + Use **ISO-8601/RFC3339 extended**: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss±HH:MM` or `Z` (24-hour). + Add fields: `epoch_ms`, `tz_iana`, `offset`, `calendar`, `parse_locale`, `orig_text`. + +2) **Parser fences** + - Fold width and digits before parse. + - Provide **allowed format set** per locale; reject others. + - Treat `/` `-` `.` as distinct; do not auto-swap day/month. + +3) **Index for retrieval** + - Index canonical string and numeric keys: `year`, `month_num`, `day`, `weekday`, `hour`. + - Add synonyms for month names in corpus languages to a controlled list. + +4) **Query normalization** + - Pre-normalize user input to the same canonical. + - If relative terms appear, resolve using **user time zone** and pass both raw and normalized. + +5) **Contract the payload** + Minimum required for any snippet carrying a date/time: + ```json + { + "datetime_iso": "2025-03-04T09:30:00+08:00", + "epoch_ms": 1741051800000, + "tz_iana": "Asia/Taipei", + "offset": "+08:00", + "calendar": "gregorian", + "parse_locale": "zh-TW", + "orig_text": "民國114年3月4日上午9:30" + } +```` + +6. **Verify** + Run three paraphrases with different date surface forms. + Pass if ΔS ≤ 0.45 and citations point to the same anchor. + +--- + +## Deep diagnostics + +* **Triangulate anchors** + Compare ΔS with the expected section and a decoy month. If close, your month mapping or digit folding is leaking. + +* **Epoch audit** + Validate `epoch_ms` monotonicity across DST transitions and week-year boundaries. Mismatch implies calendar conversion error. + +* **Tokenizer probe** + If token splits differ by locale (e.g., Arabic/Thai digits), rebuild with folded text or add a rerank step. + Open: [tokenizer\_mismatch.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/tokenizer_mismatch.md) + +--- + +## Escalate + +* ΔS stays high after normalization and rerank + → Rebuild index with correct metric; verify semantic vs embedding gaps. + Open: [embedding-vs-semantic.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md) + +* Mixed scripts in the **same** query keep flipping λ + → Stabilize with script gating and header locks. + Open: [script\_mixing.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale/script_mixing.md), [retrieval-traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md) + +--- + +## Copy-paste prompt (LLM step) + +``` +You have TXT OS and WFGY Problem Map loaded. + +My bug: retrieval flips when date formats vary by locale. +- symptoms: wrong snippet on 03/04/05 vs 4 Mar 2005 vs 民國94年3月4日 +- traces: ΔS(question,retrieved)=..., λ states across 3 paraphrases, tz=... + +Tell me: +1) the failing layer and why, +2) the exact WFGY pages to open, +3) the minimal contract and normalization to pass ΔS ≤ 0.45, +4) a reproducible test I can run (3 paraphrases, 2 seeds). +Use BBMC/BBCR/BBAM where relevant. +``` + +--- + +### 🔗 Quick-Start Downloads (60 sec) + +| Tool | Link | 3-Step Setup | +| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| **WFGY 1.0 PDF** | [Engine Paper](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/I_am_not_lizardman/WFGY_All_Principles_Return_to_One_v1.0_PSBigBig_Public.pdf) | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Upload to your LLM · 3️⃣ Ask “Answer using WFGY + \” | +| **TXT OS (plain-text OS)** | [TXTOS.txt](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/OS/TXTOS.txt) | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3️⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly | + +--- + +### 🧭 Explore More + +| Module | Description | Link | +| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| WFGY Core | WFGY 2.0 engine is live: full symbolic reasoning architecture and math stack | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/core/README.md) | +| Problem Map 1.0 | Initial 16-mode diagnostic and symbolic fix framework | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap/README.md) | +| Problem Map 2.0 | RAG-focused failure tree, modular fixes, and pipelines | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md) | +| Semantic Clinic Index | Expanded failure catalog: prompt injection, memory bugs, logic drift | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/SemanticClinicIndex.md) | +| Semantic Blueprint | Layer-based symbolic reasoning & semantic modulations | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/SemanticBlueprint/README.md) | +| Benchmark vs GPT-5 | Stress test GPT-5 with full WFGY reasoning suite | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/benchmarks/benchmark-vs-gpt5/README.md) | +| 🧙‍♂️ Starter Village 🏡 | New here? 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