Re: Date formats

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:58:58PM -0400, Laurie Harper wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what CVS accepts as a valid date format with '-D'?  I've
> tried all the formats from the man page, the format used in the results of
> 'cvs log' and a number of other variations, but all I get is 'cvs [server
> aborted]: Can't parse date/time: ...'

I always use the ISO standard:

-D 2001-05-01 
-D "2001-05-01 13:00"

Also relative:

-D "4 hours ago"
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