mercurial/help/dates.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:00:45 -0700
changeset 26756 9e272a96f764
parent 19968 7bec3f697d76
permissions -rw-r--r--
exchange: support for streaming clone bundles Now that we have a mechanism to produce and consume streaming clone bundles, we need to teach the human-facing bundle specification parser and the internal bundle file header reading code to be aware of this new format. This patch does so. For the human-facing bundle specification, we choose the name "packed" to describe "streaming clone bundles" because the bundle is essentially a "pack" of raw revlog files that are "packed" together. There should probably be a bikeshed over the name, especially since it is human facing.

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