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                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

[End of DATESW.HLP]

.KJOB
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