>Would somebody please point me to a specification of the date syntax >used by pick and sortm.
Looks like it's ... according to the man page for "pick" ... RFC-822, plus a few extras. In the case of sortm, it's just the RFC-822 parser that we have. We're talking about the "-before" and "-after" switches to pick; the -date switch is just a pattern match. I remember some non-obvious things about -before and -after ... in some cases, if you saw things like "yesterday", it's 24 hours previous to now, rather than the whole day of yesterday. But anyway, if it's not a "special" time as listed in the pick man page, it uses the RFC-822 date parser. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers