view mercurial/help/dates.txt @ 29954:769aee32fae0

strip: don't use "full" and "partial" to describe bundles

The partial bundle is not a subset of the full bundle, and the full
bundle is not full in any way that i see. The most obvious
interpretation of "full" I can think of is that it has all commits
back to the null revision, but that is not what the "full" bundle
is. The "full" bundle is simply a backup of what the user asked us to
strip (unless --no-backup). The "partial" bundle contains the
revisions we temporarily stripped because they had higher revision
numbers that some commit that the user asked us to strip.

The "full" bundle is already called "backup" in the code, so let's use
that in user-facing messages too. Let's call the "partial" bundle
"temporary" in the code.

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