netbsd-help: What date format used in tar?

Subject: What date format used in tar?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Erich T. Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/24/2000 17:27:25

for tar -N DATE, nowhere in the man page is there listed the format DATE
is expected in (either 1.4.1 or 1.5_ALPHA).  I've guessed everything I can
think of.  Anyone know what it expects?

Erich