1 .TH PROMPTDATE 1 3/13/86
3 promptdate \- accept date entry and print out in specified format
12 If no format is specified, one suitable for parsing by MH
15 If no date is given on the command line,
17 will interactively prompt for one.
18 It will persist in asking for a date until
19 a legal date is supplied.
20 To exit, type the EOF character (normally control-d).
22 The syntax of an acceptable date specification is:
24 "today" | "tomorrow" | <dayofweek> | "+"<daysfromtoday>
25 | <date> [<month> [<year>]]
29 <dayofweek> is "sunday",...,"saturday"
31 <daysfromtoday> is an unsigned decimal number
33 <date> is a valid date for that month
35 <month> is "january",...,"december"
39 Alphabetic strings may be in
40 any mix of upper or lower case.
41 They may also be abbreviated to
42 the first three letters.
44 <dayofweek> is equivalent
45 to specifying from "+1" to "+7".
47 Ken Yap (University of Rochester)
49 This manual page lies - the format is hardwired for MH.
50 General date formatting is not implemented yet.
52 Should accept more date formats. Will be replaced by a
53 user-friendlier version soon.