How to enter time into iCal?

iCal is supposed to have some type of natural language support. However, I can't get it to consistently enter a time. Most of the time it has the all day option checked.
I've tried these formats:
some kind of meeting @ 8a
some kind of meeting @8a
some kind of meeting at 8a
However, randomly it will use the time and the all day option is not checked. Does any one know how to make this work consistently?

'AM' or 'PM' that's right for the start time. The app appears to make the ending time 1 hour later which would make sense. Of course, once the event is created, it can be edited. Not entering a start time will make the 'All Day' checkbox be checked since the app doesn't know it's not an all day event.
EDITED: Also ran a test entering a new event like this: Meeting at 8am until 3pm. The entry in iCal was: Event name of Meeting Time of 8:00am-3:00pm

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