From 381b3143411d6a296ccee04a8ab86aff6149fdbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien@dynare.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:59:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Manual: document alternative syntaxes for annual and
 bi-annual dates

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(cherry picked from commit e623fa6f811c65b758db1590869aa0f46d8c0b9b)
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 doc/manual/source/time-series.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/manual/source/time-series.rst b/doc/manual/source/time-series.rst
index 2af0796869..fd61cbca3d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/time-series.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/time-series.rst
@@ -31,10 +31,15 @@ Dynare understands dates in a mod file. Users can declare annual, bi-annual,
 quarterly, or monthly dates using the following syntax::
 
     1990Y
+    1990A
     1990S2
+    1990H2
     1990Q4
     1990M11
 
+Note that there are two syntaxes for annual dates (`1990A` is equivalent to
+`1990Y`), and for bi-annual dates (`1990H2` is equivalent to `1990S2`).
+
 Behind the scene, Dynare’s preprocessor translates these expressions
 into instantiations of the MATLAB/Octave’s class ``dates`` described
 below. Basic operations can be performed on dates:
-- 
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