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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to 
	a given time
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:17:28 +0200
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:08, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Ah, I see