Re: search by date range

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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: search by date range\r
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+Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:39:04 +0200\r
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+On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:58:00 -0500, Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com> wrote:\r
+> I really like searching my inde by date and I came across a post that I\r
+> can't seems to find for the life of me regarding the functionality of\r
+> doing such a thing. I'll I'm left with is this[1] and I can't figure out\r
+> what the heck it is. I do know that what it does do is limit mail from\r
+> two weeks back to present. I suppose the omition at .. implies present\r
+> but what the number represent and how to I play with that?\r
+\r
+Hi Philippe -\r
+\r
+Out of the box you have the date search syntax described in 'man\r
+notmuch-search-terms', i.e. specifying a date range in terms of\r
+timestamps. Not very user friendly, but can be helped a little by using\r
+date(1) to produce the timestamps. See the man page.\r
+\r
+Quite some time ago I posted patches to add gnulib date search, but the\r
+gnulib semantics, while compatible with other GNU programs, are a bit\r
+awkward for the needs of notmuch. Plus it's plenty of code. See\r
+id:"cover.1312964528.git.jani@nikula.org" for the patches (they may not\r
+apply anymore though).\r
+\r
+Finally, I've been working on adding support for a decent date range\r
+search. It still needs some polish and tests, but seeing the demand,\r
+perhaps I should just post the patches and see what happens.\r
+\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r