mercurial/help/dates.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sun, 11 Mar 2018 15:33:56 -0700
changeset 36906 219b23359f4c
parent 19968 7bec3f697d76
permissions -rw-r--r--
hgweb: support constructing URLs from an alternate base URL The web.baseurl config option allows server operators to define a custom URL for hosted content. The way it works today is that hgwebdir parses this config option into URL components then updates the appropriate WSGI environment variables so the request "lies" about its details. For example, SERVER_NAME is updated to reflect the alternate base URL's hostname. The WSGI environment should not be modified because WSGI applications may want to know the original request details (for debugging, etc). This commit teaches our request parser about the existence of an alternate base URL. If defined, the advertised URL and other self-reflected paths will take the alternate base URL into account. The hgweb WSGI application didn't use web.baseurl. But hgwebdir did. We update hgwebdir to alter the environment parsing accordingly. The old code around environment manipulation has been removed. With this change, parserequestfromenv() has grown to a bit unwieldy. Now that practically everyone is using it, it is obvious that there is some unused features that can be trimmed. So look for this in follow-up commits. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2822

Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:

- backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
- log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.

Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:

- ``Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006`` (local timezone assumed)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 -0600`` (year assumed, time offset provided)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 UTC`` (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
- ``Dec 6`` (midnight)
- ``13:18`` (today assumed)
- ``3:39`` (3:39AM assumed)
- ``3:39pm`` (15:39)
- ``2006-12-06 13:18:29`` (ISO 8601 format)
- ``2006-12-6 13:18``
- ``2006-12-6``
- ``12-6``
- ``12/6``
- ``12/6/6`` (Dec 6 2006)
- ``today`` (midnight)
- ``yesterday`` (midnight)
- ``now`` - right now

Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:

- ``1165411109 0`` (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)

This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number
is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The
second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC
(negative if the timezone is east of UTC).

The log command also accepts date ranges:

- ``<DATE`` - at or before a given date/time
- ``>DATE`` - on or after a given date/time
- ``DATE to DATE`` - a date range, inclusive
- ``-DAYS`` - within a given number of days of today