annotate mercurial/help/dates.txt @ 41152:191fac9ff9d3

obsutil: fix the issue5686

While traversing the obsolescence graph to find the successors sets
of csets:
    In its 4th case (read comments of obsutil.successorssets to see
    all 4 cases) where we know successors sets of all direct successors
    of CURRENT, we were just missing a condition to filter out the case
    when a cset is pruned.
    And without this condition (that this patch added) it was making a whole
    successor set to [] just because of one pruned marker.

For e.g:if following is the successors set of a cset A:
           A -> [a, b, c]

        if we prune c, we expect A's successors set to be [a, b] but
        you would get:
           A -> []
So this patch make sure that we calculate the right successorsset of csets
considering the pruned cset (in split case).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5474

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