Speak the demo date naturally to the voice agent - #1
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The `date` dynamic variable was the raw ISO string, so ElevenLabs read it
aloud as "2026-09-19". Format it as "today, Saturday, September 19th"
("tomorrow, ..." the next day, plain weekday and date after that), computed
in the session's timezone with correct ordinal suffixes.
Only the `date` dynamic variable changes. session.context.date stays the ISO
string, so the dashboard and demoTime are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The
datedynamic variable handed to ElevenLabs is the raw ISO string, so the agent reads it aloud as "two thousand twenty-six dash zero nine dash nineteen".Change
Format it for speech in
VoiceService.start(), wheredynamicVariables(session.context)is built:today, Saturday, September 19thwhen the date is todaytomorrow, Sunday, September 20thwhen it's tomorrowMonday, September 21stotherwiseToday/tomorrow are computed in the session's timezone (
call.business.timezone). Ordinal suffixes handle the 11th/12th/13th and 21st/22nd/23rd cases.Only the
datedynamic variable changes.session.context.datestays the ISODEMO_DATEstring, so the dashboard anddemoTime()are untouched.Notes
apps/api/src/refill/time.ts, self-contained with no new dependencies.npm run checkpasses: typecheck, 10/10 tests, web build. No existing test asserted ondynamicVariables.date.🤖 Generated with Claude Code