The following table gives examples of date range specifications for the Pharos environmental data collection system. As you can see, lots of different date specifiers will work; we've tried to make the available formats as intuitive as possible.

The first column lists an example date specification, while the second column gives a brief description of what is meant by the example. The third and fourth columns give the beginning and ending times that result from the example, and the last column indicates the number of days in the range.

Some notes about date specifiers:

• Months always appear before the day (i.e., 01/31/1997, not 31/01/1997)
• Only slashes (/) or dots (.) can be used to separate month, day, and year (e.g., 01/31/1997 or 01.31.1997)
• Ranges of dates can be specified using dashes or commas

In the "try one" box you can enter your own date specification to see what the results will be.

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