I forget how it is worded, in particular, but in going through the process of entering information into the presence calculator an applicant who has been outside Canada on any date during the full eligibility period needs to respond in a way that opens the interface for entering travel dates. It will not (last I tried, at least not without a warning) allow entering dates prior to the first day of the eligibility period. If the applicant was outside Canada on the first day of the eligibility period, enter that date as date of exit and then enter date when the applicant came to Canada as date of entry. The instructions state to list, in addition to the destination country, all countries traveled to during this period, listing them in the box for entering the purpose or reason for the trip. No need to list dates for those, just list of countries.
This will assure, for example, that any stamps in the passport related to those trips are readily correlated to the disclosed trip to the respective country.
