Re: [PATCH v4 02/16] Move crypto.c into libutil

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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search\r
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:55:50 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
> Hi all, these patches add support for natural language date range search\r
> of the form date:since..until, where since and until can be fairly free\r
> form date/time expressions in English.\r
> \r
> Examples:\r
> \r
> date:two-days..yesterday (all mail in the two days before today)\r
> date:12h.. (all mail since 12 hrs ago)\r
> date:november..november (all mail in previous november)\r
> date:2011.. (all mail since the beginning of 2011)\r
> date:last-week..this-week (all mail over last and current week)\r
> date:5/10/2011-12:34:55..10pm_2012-01-14\r
> \r
> Plus plenty more and combinations of the above.\r
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Pretty c00l, the above and the code.\r
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> \r
> The repository for the date/time parser with a command line tool is at\r
> [1], and there's a README [2] with a bunch of details too.\r
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By seeing the thoughts thrown in IRC there seems to be plenty if things\r
to resolve until something like this is going to be available in stock\r
notmuch. In the meanwhile I provide some ideas into the soup; maybe\r
our collective mind can have some use of this.\r
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Q: Could 'date:timestr' be converted to 'date:timestr..timestr' ?\r
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In this idea -<timestr> means relative time and <timestr> absolute\r
time. The the time string consists of number and letter and assume\r
the above suggestion for date:timestr (<- == date:timestr..timestr)\r
Letters are s seconds  h hours  d days  w weeks  m months (more\r
useful than for minutes) and  y years.\r
\r
date:-2000s     email exactly 2000 seconds ago (not very useful)\r
date:-2000s..   since 2000 secs in past\r
date:..-2000s   up to 2000 secs in past\r
\r
date:3600s      email with date 01:00 -- today if (local) time is\r
                more than 1am. yesterday if less. If there is not\r
                mail with date exactly that then no email matches\r
                (i.e. same usefullness applies as above)\r
date:3600s..    email with date since 01:00 (same today/yesterday\r
                resolvation like above)\r
\r
date:12h..      since noon, either yesterday (time less than 12pm)\r
                or today (currently afternoon)\r
date:12h        like above, but since 12:00 to 13:00\r
date:12h..12h   ditto\r
\r
date:6pm..      since 18:00 either today (current time > 6pm) or yesterday\r
\r
date:-12h..     since 12 hours ago\r
date:-12h       since 12 hours ago to 11 hours ago\r
\r
date:-1h        last hour\r
date:0h         today 12am - 01am \r
\r
date:-0d        today\r
date:-0d..      ditto\r
date:-1d        yesterday\r
date:-1d..      yesterday & today\r
\r
date:-2d        2 days ago\r
date:-2d..      day before yesterday, yesterday & today\r
\r
date:0d         last sunday (if today sunday, today (so being consistent))\r
date:1d         last monday (like above)\r
date:6d         last saturday (like above)\r
date:7d         last sunday (same as 0d)\r
\r
date:-0w        current week (does week start sun or mon)\r
date:-1w        last week (same as above)\r
date:-2w..      since beginning of 2 weeks ago\r
\r
date:1w         (ISO) week number ? current week it this is same week  \r
                number. this week last year if current week is less.\r
date:1w..       since the above date resolved.\r
\r
date:11m        last november (m is more useable in month than in minute)\r
date:11m..      since last november\r
\r
date:-11m       whole month 11 months ago\r
date:-11m..     since beginning of 11 months ago\r
\r
date:70y        year 1970\r
date:69y        year 2069\r
date:0y         year 2000\r
date:99y..      since beginning of 1999\r
\r
date:-0y        this year\r
date:-1y        last year\r
\r
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This is incomplete, but pretty easy to use format. Letters from English\r
language. What is missing letter for month (M?) ar mday (D?). All thought\r
as in local time...\r
\r
... strings could be concatenated: for example: -3d11h (meaning second\r
always absolute). Need to be in granularity order (or something). Timezone\r
could be added (pst, utc, eest, z -- and even like -11 or +4\r
( -2y11m+7 meaning year 2010 november in timezone utc + 7 (this year: 2012))\r
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Of course range date:-2d..-5h would be supported.\r
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> BR,\r
> Jani.\r
> \r
> \r
> [1] https://gitorious.org/parse-time-string/parse-time-string\r
> [2] https://gitorious.org/parse-time-string/parse-time-string/blobs/master/README\r
> \r
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Tomi\r
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