Does Google Calendar no longer parse dates and times?

Post date: 2020-01-24 04:56:47

If a friend emails me to say, "Let's meet for lunch at Leonardo's on Wednesday, March 5 at 12:30 pm," what's the fastest way I can turn that into an event? Google used to be really good at slurping up dates and times from gmail and making it very easy to add them to gcal, but this functionality seems to have gone away. (Note that I am not talking about automatic gcal events generated from emails with gcal invites, plane or hotel reservations, etc. Those seem to work fine for me.)

It also used to be that you could paste a date and time in almost any format into the title of a new event, and gcal would automagically parse them out and use them for the date and time of the event, but no longer?

My org has Google Apps for Education so we have most of the G Suite functionality, and I usually use Chrome but am not especially attached to it. I've looked in the gcal and gmail settings, the Google documentation, the Google S Marketplace, the Chrome Webstore, and googled (obvs) for a solution but, I admit, have not started wading through the million spammy listicles with titles like "17 Extensions to Powerhack Your Google Calendar."

Does anyone have a solution for this?

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