[PATCH] TODO: date range queries - check

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Fri Dec 7 13:35:51 PST 2012


On Fri, 07 Dec 2012, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07 2012, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
>> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> writes:
>>> Has this TODO really been resolved?  Do searches like "since:2009-01-1"
>>> or "until:2009-01-1" really now work?  As far as I can tell they don't.
>>> Nor are they documented if they do.
>>
>> For specifying one-ended ranges, I find the current syntax OK-ish. It
>> would be reasonable to formulate a seperate TODO for supporting
>> things like date:2012-12-07
>
> Yeah, I think this is reasonable.  I still think it would be nice to
> have the requested functionality.  I'm probably having a visceral
> reaction to the fact that I initially thought the new parser *did*
> support these kinds of searches, and was really confused when I got
> errors.  Austin's custom query parser from way back did support this, so
> it is possible.  It doesn't hurt anything to continue to list it as a
> desired feature.

Fine by me. I was just trying to clean up the file a bit, that's
all. The only downside I can think of is potential new users stumbling
on this and thinking we still don't have date queries. *shrug*.

BR,
Jani.


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