Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support

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+Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> writes:\r
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+> IMO this is totally unintuitive and not how the range should work.\r
+> date:foo..bar should return messages whose date >= foo and < bar.  So\r
+> for instance date:november..yesterday should return messages whose date\r
+> is > 2012/11/01 00:00:00 and < 2012/09/12 00:00:00.  So to get\r
+> yesterdays messages one would do: date:yesterday..today.\r
+\r
+I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very\r
+intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough.\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r