Date-Time arguments help file
The Date-Time arguments to switches like /BEFORE and /SINCE
can be either relative to now, or absolute.
Relative argument:
+ number of daysD:hours:minutes:seconds
where
--- + can be +(future) or -(past)
---number of days is optional
---D is required if number of days is given
---hours are optional if D is given ; otherwise
hours are required
---minutes are optional
---seconds are optional ; but if seconds are used,
minutes must be given or seconds will be
taken as minutes
--- a colon is required if more than one field is given
Absolute argument:
weekday or date:hours:minutes:seconds
where
---weekday is the day of the week (or a unique abbreviation)
and is optional
---date is optional and has one of the following forms:
21-oct-72
oct-21-72
10-21-72
---the year (and preceding hyphen) is optional and can
be 1, 2, or 4 digits
---hours, based on 24-hour time are required
---minutes are optional
---seconds are optional
except: for /TIME--of the three numbers for hours, minutes
and seconds; if only one is given, it is
assumed to be seconds; if two, minutes and
and seconds; all three are needed to get
hours, minutes and seconds.
If hours are omitted, the /BEFORE or /SINCE (which imply past)
and the /AFTER (which implies future) are used to supply the time as
00:00:00 if past and 23:59:59 if future.
Other date-time keywords allowed are
/since: LOGIN, MIDNIGHT, NOON, YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, MONDAY, etc
and any unique abbreviation of them, including month names.
Examples for your delight:
/since:-3d:4:27:21 3days,4hrs,27mins,21secs ago
/after:sat after 23:59:59 next saturday
/bef:25-feb before last February 25th
/sin:jul-3-70:12 since July 3,1970 at noon
/sin:-1 since the last hour
/sin:-1d since the last day at 00:00:00
/time:20 20 seconds of time
/time:20:0 20 minutes of time
