>>I use From-Thru rather than From-Till in my apps if the second date/datetime is inclusive. For example, if a report should span yesterday and today then the Thru day is today while Till would produce a report without today. Is this correct usage of English?
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>>Terry McDonnell responded:
>>In the UK we'd say "I work Monday to Friday" whereas in the US they say, I believe, "Monday through Friday".
>>"till" or "until" implies a time deadline, as in "I work till 5 pm, Monday to Friday", so a time/date at which the action is finished, so not so intuitively inclusive.
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>>How about the US-English? Perhaps some native US-Americans can tell more about it.
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>Avoid "till"; it's a slangy abbreviation of "until". "Thru" is slang for "through," though I expect in another generation or two, it'll be fully accepted.
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>As for meanings, "through" is certainly inclusive. "Until" is ambiguous; it wouldn't be clear to me whether the later date is included or not.
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>Tamar

I think we used either from to or from through in our controls (don't recall the exact wording now). Yet, lots of times any of the dates was optional.