diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 99aa219..bf2dab5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use thiserror::Error;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::env;
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use chrono::{DateTime, Datelike, Timelike, Local};
 
 pub mod ical_parsing;
 
@@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ pub enum Error {
 	Mime(#[from] mime::FromStrError),
 	#[error("chrono parsing error: {0}")]
 	Chrono(#[from] chrono::format::ParseError),
+	#[error("integer parsing error: {0}")]
+	Integer(#[from] std::num::ParseIntError),
 	#[error("ical parsing error: {0}")]
 	Ical(#[from] ical_parsing::Error),
 	#[error("internal error: {0}")]
@@ -75,3 +78,25 @@ pub async fn send_message<S: Into<String>>(msg: S) -> Result<(), Error> {
 	API.send(SendMessage::new(*OWNER, msg.into())).await?;
 	Ok(())
 }
+
+pub fn parse_time<S: AsRef<str>>(s: S) -> Result<DateTime<Local>, Error> {
+	let s = s.as_ref();
+	// YYYY-MM-DD format
+	let parens = s.split('-').collect::<Vec<_>>();
+	if parens.len() == 3 {
+		let year = parens[0].parse()?;
+		let month = parens[1].parse()?;
+		let day = parens[2].parse()?;
+		// TODO: construct this datetime in a more elegant way
+		let dt = Local::now()
+			.with_year(year).unwrap()
+			.with_month(month).unwrap()
+			.with_day(day).unwrap()
+			.with_hour(0).unwrap()
+			.with_minute(0).unwrap()
+			.with_second(0).unwrap();
+		Ok(dt)
+	} else {
+		Err(error("unsupported format"))
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 697a724..9b079f9 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -82,11 +82,23 @@ async fn process_one(update: Update, context: &mut Context) -> Result<(), Error>
 				*reminder_start = Local::now();
 				return Ok(());
 			} else if !reminder_text.is_empty() {
-				*reminder_text = data.to_owned();
-				let mut edit = EditMessageText::new(*OWNER, *reminder_msg, format!("in {}: {}", format_time(*reminder_time), reminder_text));
-				edit.reply_markup(get_keyboard());
-				API.send(edit).await?;
-				return Ok(());
+				if data.starts_with("time ") && data.len() > 5 {
+					let time = parse_time(&data[5..]);
+					match time {
+						Ok(time) => {
+							*reminder_start = time;
+							send_message(format!("got time {}", reminder_start.format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"))).await
+						},
+						Err(e) => send_message(format!("{:?}", e)).await,
+					}?;
+					return Ok(());
+				} else {
+					*reminder_text = data.to_owned();
+					let mut edit = EditMessageText::new(*OWNER, *reminder_msg, format!("in {}: {}", format_time(*reminder_time), reminder_text));
+					edit.reply_markup(get_keyboard());
+					API.send(edit).await?;
+					return Ok(());
+				}
 			}
 			let is_url = false; //Url::parse(&data).is_ok(); // TODO: read this data from the Telegram json data (utf16 idxes..)
 			let formatted_text = if is_url {