[ale] Tar/Date Question

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	'info tar' has a section dealing with it. Easier way I used is to 
use a file's mtime as flag. you just need to say
 --newer /path/to/myTimeFlagFile

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Date input formats

* General date syntax::            Common rules.
* Calendar date items::            19 Dec 1994.
* Time of day items::              9:20pm.
* Time zone items::                EST, PDT, GMT, ...
* Day of week items::              Monday and others.
* Relative items in date strings:: next tuesday, 2 years ago.
* Pure numbers in date strings::   19931219, 1440.
* Authors of getdate::             Bellovin, Eggert, Salz, Berets, et al.
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bob Kruger wrote:

#Does anyone know the correct date format for use in generating a tarball?
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#Example:  tar -cvf --newer <DATE> *
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#Thanks in advance.
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#Regards - Bob Kruger
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