From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@nixu.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] add user friendly date range search
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:53:32 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20110823163908.GD2968@lemote.jasonwoof.com> (Jason Woofenden's
	message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:39:09 -0400")
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On Tue 23 Aug 2011 19:39, Jason Woofenden <jason@jasonwoof.com> writes:

> Here's my thoughts on date/range syntax:
>
> I think: date:monday should show only e-mails that arrived on
> monday (not also emails that arrived since then.) Because that's
> what it looks like it does.
>
> I think a very common use of date ranges will be from some time
> until now. So I'd like that to be easy. I suggest this syntax:
>
> 	since:monday
>
> which would be a shorthand for:
>
> 	date:monday-00:00:00..now
>
> If that's not a popular idea, then we should at least be able to
> use this shorthand for the same:
>
> 	date:monday..

This is better, so that us who speaks other languages than English
natively doesn't need to learn (think in) so many english words >;)

So, date:mon[day], date:..mon and date:monday.. would be
something I liked best.

> Also, I think it's quite valuable to have "yesterday" work as a
> date.

I agree.

>
> That's all.
>
>          - Jason

Tomi