to be wildcarded.
As a side effect, this allows '**' in the date field to match every
day of the year, which is very useful for TODO items.
It's important to note that the syntax has a lot of hardcoded (and
undocumented) ambiguity resolution stuff, and is crying out for a
simplification, and maybe some use of yacc and lex.
When this is done, a minor flag day (and probably a compatibility
flag :-( ) should be included, for current users who are making
use of some of the corner cases. I'll raise this on tech-userlevel
before going there. CVS:
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