On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
>
> Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> > The docs say that TO -00-0131 is until the end of last month, and it isn't a
> > typo.
>
> Ok, then I'm confused. Why isn't the syntax interchageable between FROM and
> TO?
It is.
> (e.g. FROM -00-00-30 is only last 30 days and TO -00-00-30 is
> everything until last 30 days.)
Correct.
> And why doesn't TO -00-0131 mean everything
> until 131 months ago? I guess I understood it to be
> {FROM|TO}[-]yy-mm-dd:hh:mm.
>
Well, that's where you're wrong. The above parses as -00 -01 31 -- day 31 of
month -1 of year -0. This means that you can do things like FROM -00-0001 as
well, meaning from the start of this month.
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