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Help for Since, Until
Many popular mailing lists have archives spanning 10 or more years of activity. If the mailing list is about technology, you may not be interested in messages that are older than a few years. Or, alternatively, you may happen to know approximately when the information you are looking for was posted to the list. You can use the "Since" and "Until" boxes to restrict your search accordingly.
The syntax is very flexible and you can specify a date and/or time in just about any of the commonly used formats:
- 23 Jun 1986 (self explanatory).
- 1986-06-23 (international date format).
- 1995 or just 95 selects 1 Jan 1995 for the "Since" box or 31 Dec 1995 for the "Until" box.
- APR selects April of the current year, 1st or 30th depending on whether this was entered in the "Since" or "Until" box.
- APRIL 95 is the same as above, but for the year 1995.
- TODAY-7 (7 days ago) makes it easy to get a list of all the messages posted in the past week. You can also use YESTERDAY or TODAY for a shorter time span.
IMPORTANT: The US date format (mm/dd or mm/dd/yy) is not supported because it is ambiguous. Many other countries use dd/mm or dd/mm/yy instead, and to avoid ambiguities LISTSERV only supports the international date format, yyyy-mm-dd or yy/mm/dd.
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