Squashed commit of the following:

commit 75113187432939a51486422c3f70b3a9e2bcf0aa
Merge: 74d1854 47e10fb
Author: Jonathan Wren <9453067+wren@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 24 17:02:10 2019 -0700

    Merge pull request #665 from notbalanced/issue_662

    Fixes Issue #662 - Day names not treated consistently for new entry

commit 74d1854a4bba468221b4eee254bdee2bb40f5d5a
Merge: 97e4d6a 6a5726a
Author: Jonathan Wren <9453067+wren@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 5 15:30:57 2019 -0700

    Merge pull request #418 from philipsd6/2.0-fancy_exporter

    Add exporter to output entries inside unicode box character boxes

commit 47e10fbee7
Author: Craig Moyer <craig.moyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 29 19:06:53 2019 -0400

    Fix issue #662 to properly handle day names as new entry dates and
    command line (-on, -from, -to).

commit 9588913100
Author: Craig Moyer <craig.moyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 29 08:27:27 2019 -0400

    Syncing with jrnl-org/master

commit 4c68eb193d
Merge: 81dfebb 97e4d6a
Author: Craig Moyer <craig.moyer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 29 07:52:02 2019 -0400

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into 2.0-rc1-maebert

commit 81dfebb2c0
Author: Manuel Ebert <manuel@1450.me>
Date:   Mon Apr 29 20:34:18 2019 +0200

    export changes

commit 6a5726acd2
Author: Philip Douglass <philip@philipdouglass.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 22 20:56:36 2017 -0500

    Enable FancyExporter plugin

commit 3d1b226871
Author: Philip Douglass <philip@philipdouglass.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 29 11:17:41 2016 -0500

    Add exporter to output entries inside unicode box character boxes

jrnl/Journal.py

@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ class Journal:
             try:
                 new_date = datetime.strptime(date_blob, self.config["timeformat"])
             except ValueError:
-                new_date = time.parse(date_blob)
+                # Passing in a date that had brackets around it
+                new_date = time.parse(date_blob, bracketed=True)
 
             if new_date:
                 if entries:

jrnl/plugins/__init__.py

@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ from .tag_exporter import TagExporter
 from .xml_exporter import XMLExporter
 from .yaml_exporter import YAMLExporter
 from .template_exporter import __all__ as template_exporters
+from .fancy_exporter import FancyExporter
 
-__exporters =[JSONExporter, MarkdownExporter, TagExporter, TextExporter, XMLExporter, YAMLExporter] + template_exporters
+__exporters =[JSONExporter, MarkdownExporter, TagExporter, TextExporter, XMLExporter, YAMLExporter, FancyExporter] + template_exporters
 __importers =[JRNLImporter]
 
 __exporter_types = {name: plugin for plugin in __exporters for name in plugin.names}

jrnl/plugins/fancy_exporter.py

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# encoding: utf-8
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals, print_function
+from .text_exporter import TextExporter
+from textwrap import TextWrapper
+
+
+class FancyExporter(TextExporter):
+    """This Exporter can convert entries and journals into text with unicode box drawing characters."""
+    names = ["fancy", "boxed"]
+    extension = "txt"
+
+    border_a="┎"
+    border_b="─"
+    border_c="╮"
+    border_d="╘"
+    border_e="═"
+    border_f="╕"
+    border_g="┃"
+    border_h="│"
+    border_i="┠"
+    border_j="╌"
+    border_k="┤"
+    border_l="┖"
+    border_m="┘"
+
+    @classmethod
+    def export_entry(cls, entry):
+        """Returns a fancy unicode representation of a single entry."""
+        date_str = entry.date.strftime(entry.journal.config['timeformat'])
+        linewrap = entry.journal.config['linewrap'] or 78
+        initial_linewrap = linewrap - len(date_str) - 2
+        body_linewrap = linewrap - 2
+        card = [cls.border_a + cls.border_b*(initial_linewrap) + cls.border_c + date_str]
+        w = TextWrapper(width=initial_linewrap, initial_indent=cls.border_g+' ', subsequent_indent=cls.border_g+' ')
+        title_lines = w.wrap(entry.title)
+        card.append(title_lines[0].ljust(initial_linewrap+1) + cls.border_d + cls.border_e*(len(date_str)-1) + cls.border_f)
+        w.width = body_linewrap
+        if len(title_lines) > 1:
+            for line in w.wrap(' '.join([title_line[len(w.subsequent_indent):]
+                                         for title_line in title_lines[1:]])):
+                card.append(line.ljust(body_linewrap+1) + cls.border_h)
+        if entry.body:
+            card.append(cls.border_i + cls.border_j*body_linewrap + cls.border_k)
+            for line in entry.body.splitlines():
+                body_lines = w.wrap(line) or [cls.border_g]
+                for body_line in body_lines:
+                    card.append(body_line.ljust(body_linewrap+1) + cls.border_h)
+        card.append(cls.border_l + cls.border_b*body_linewrap + cls.border_m)
+        return "\n".join(card)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def export_journal(cls, journal):
+        """Returns a unicode representation of an entire journal."""
+        return "\n".join(cls.export_entry(entry) for entry in journal)

jrnl/time.py

@@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ consts.DOWParseStyle = -1  # "Monday" will be either today or the last Monday
 CALENDAR = pdt.Calendar(consts)
 
 
-def parse(date_str, inclusive=False, default_hour=None, default_minute=None):
+def parse(date_str, inclusive=False, default_hour=None, default_minute=None, bracketed=False):
     """Parses a string containing a fuzzy date and returns a datetime.datetime object"""
     if not date_str:
         return None
     elif isinstance(date_str, datetime):
         return date_str
 
-    # Don't try to parse anything with 6 or less characters. It's probably a markdown footnote
-    if len(date_str) <= 6:
+    # Don't try to parse anything with 6 or less characters and was parsed from the existing journal. 
+    # It's probably a markdown footnote
+    if len(date_str) <= 6 and bracketed:
         return None
 
     default_date = DEFAULT_FUTURE if inclusive else DEFAULT_PAST
@@ -51,8 +52,11 @@ def parse(date_str, inclusive=False, default_hour=None, default_minute=None):
         except TypeError:
             return None
 
-    if flag == 1:  # Date found, but no time. Use the default time.
-        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=default_hour or 0, minute=default_minute or 0)
+    if flag is 1:  # Date found, but no time. Use the default time.
+        date = datetime(*date[:3], 
+                        hour=23 if inclusive else default_hour or 0, 
+                        minute=59 if inclusive else default_minute or 0,
+                        second=59 if inclusive else 0)
     else:
         date = datetime(*date[:6])