I am thinking of standardizing the syntax for dates, times, and durations used 
by the applications in the next releases, based on 
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/schema_dtypes_date.asp (with the extension that 
lowercase letters can also be used).

Objects that need dates (x509 etc) will have a standard -start flag.  It takes 
an ISO date-time, the time defaulting to 00:00.  A time and duration can be 
specified by putting /duration after the start date.  Or the abosolute time can 
be specified with an -end flag.  For example
                -start 2017-02-10/p30d
                -start 2017-02-10 -end 2017-03-12
Both mean the same thing, from Feb 10 for 30 days.

Comments?
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