NAME

       dp - parse dates 822-style

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/mmh/dp [-form formatfile] [-Version] [-help] dates ...

DESCRIPTION

       Dp  is  a  program  that  parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard.  It also understands many
       non-standard formats, such as those produced by TOPS-20 sites and some UNIX sites using ctime(3).  It  is
       useful for seeing how mmh will interpret a date.

       The dp program treats each argument as a single date, and prints the date out in the official 822-format.
       Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in double-quotes for the shell.

       To override the output format used by dp, the -form file switch is used.  This permits individual  fields
       of  the  address  to  be  extracted  with ease.  The file is either the name of a format file or a format
       string directly, if prepended with an equal sign `='.  See mh-format(5) for the details.

       Here is the default format string used by dp:

            %<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(putstr(pretty{text}))%>

       which says that if an error was detected, print the error, a `:', and  the  date  in  error.   Otherwise,
       output the 822-proper format of the date.

FILES

       $HOME/.mmh/profile         The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       None

SEE ALSO

       ap(8), Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC-822)

DEFAULTS

       `-form' default as described above

CONTEXT

       None