Bug#846615: devscripts[bts]: please document syntax of 'limit date:...' and 'select bugs:...'

[Daniel Shahaf]

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 16:31:06 +0000:
> 2. The documentation of 'bts limit' reads:
> 
>    1862 =item B<date>
>    1863 
>    1864 Date the bug was submitted.
> 
> Please document the acceptable date formats.  (Unix timestamps?  ISO
> 8601 strings?)
> 
> I couldn't find any documenation on the debbugs side of things, either.

>From #debbugs IRC, regarding date:

<name redacted> danielsh: it's a unix timestamp; it's probably a totally useless thing to limit on
<name redacted> danielsh: basically, it's what's returned by bts status nnn;
<name redacted> (useless mainly because limit only has a concept of equality, not range or any other operator)