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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support
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Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:

> IMO this is totally unintuitive and not how the range should work.
> date:foo..bar should return messages whose date >= foo and < bar.  So
> for instance date:november..yesterday should return messages whose date
> is > 2012/11/01 00:00:00 and < 2012/09/12 00:00:00.  So to get
> yesterdays messages one would do: date:yesterday..today.

I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very
intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough.

d