Hodiernal tense
A hodiernal tense is a grammatical tense for the current day.
Hodiernal tenses refer to events of today or of the day under consideration.
Hodiernal past tense refers to events of earlier today, while hodiernal future tense refers to events of later today. A post-hodiernal tense is a future tense for events that will occur after today or the day under consideration, while pre-hodiernal is a past tense for events that occurred before today or the day under consideration.
Languages which include or included hodiernal tenses include Mwera and Classical French. Mwotlap has a hodiernal future, which is the only absolute tense of its TAM system.
The term 'hodiernal past' was first used in publications in 1968.
