Pulling a full copy of files based on a Date
Issue a cvs update command with the -D option.
Note this has a couple of irks.
cvs -Q update -D "2002-12-1"
The -Q command makes this quiet and reduces the amount printed on your screen.
This command with get the FIRST file committed on 21/1/2002. Probably not what you wanted.
cvs -Q update -D "2002-12-1 23:59:59" is better but this might not get the last file committed. Why? because files are saved with GMT time and command default to local time.
cvs -Q update -D "2002-12-1 23:59:59 GMT" is the proper version