Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with
Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past.

However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page,
it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is the "STRING"
fomrat?


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