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



On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> 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?

Lines 47-133 of the date(1) man page describe the string format in
excruciating detail.

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