Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:
• backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
• log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.
Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:
• Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 (local timezone assumed)
• Dec 6 13:18 -0600 (year assumed, time offset provided)
• Dec 6 13:18 UTC (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
• Dec 6 (midnight)
• 13:18 (today assumed)
• 3:39 (3:39AM assumed)
• 3:39pm (15:39)
• 2006-12-06 13:18:29 (ISO 8601 format)
• 2006-12-6 13:18
• 2006-12-6
• 12-6
• 12/6
• 12/6/6 (Dec 6 2006)
• today (midnight)
• yesterday (midnight)
• now - right now
Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:
• 1165432709 0 (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)
This is the internal representation format for dates. The first
number is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00
UTC). The second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds
west of UTC (negative if the timezone is east of UTC).
The log command also accepts date ranges:
• <DATE - at or before a given date/time
• >DATE - on or after a given date/time
• DATE to DATE - a date range, inclusive
• -DAYS - within a given number of days of today
