[h-e-w] Date and time?

[Bill Pringlemeir]

I am trying to do the following,

;;; open readonly ~/Mail/archive/misc-mail.  
;;  mark end 
;;  home
;;  search for current date.
;;  narrow to region
;;  Extract "subject/to/cc" fields if "to" or "cc" == string.

What function should I use to get a date.  Gnus put the following
form in my misc-mail,

   From nobody Fri Sep 28 20:04:00 2001
   Sender: address@hidden
   From: address@hidden
   Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
   Bcc: Help Emacs Windows <address@hidden>
   Subject: Ange-ftp and vxworks.
...

I guess I need (isearch-forward (concat "^From nobody" (weekday) 
                        (month) (day) ".*" (year) "$")) 

to find the first article posted for that day?  Perhaps I should look
through the Gnus code for something?

Is there a gnu.emacs.help gateway?  The traffic seemed unbearable over
Usenet.  I think I need comp.elisp.clueless.  I did try the manuals,
but date and time are common words.  My appros grabs many lisp modules
that I have loaded (calendar, diary, gnus, article, etc).  Ergo, I
don't know what the simple function is to get a date and time
data... and perhaps the steps I outlined are stupid.

tia
Bill Pringlemeir.