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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add date formatting and parsing functions relative
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:08:26 -0400
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> > +check_show 5 '5 seconds ago'
> > +check_show 300 '5 minutes ago'
> > +check_show 18000 '5 hours ago'
> > +check_show 432000 '5 days ago'
> > +check_show 1728000 '3 weeks ago'
> > +check_show 13000000 '5 months ago'
> > +check_show 37500000 '1 year, 2 months ago'
> > +check_show 55188000 '1 year, 9 months ago'
> > +check_show 630000000 '20 years ago'
> 
> check_show 630000000 '20.years.ago'?
> (Arbitrary, non-whitespace delimiters, which was an
> advertised feature, to make shell's life easier)

This part is about checking what show_date produces (the first number is
an offset from now in seconds, and the second is what we expect), so it
always has spaces.

See the check_approxidate section further down for an example of parsing
what you are talking about.

-Peff