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

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+From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support\r
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+On Thu, Sep 13 2012, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:\r
+> On Wed, Sep 12 2012, Jani Nikula wrote:\r
+>> Add a custom value range processor to enable date and time searches of\r
+>> the form date:since..until, where "since" and "until" are expressions\r
+>> understood by the previously added date/time parser, to restrict the\r
+>> results to messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:\r
+>> header).\r
+>>\r
+>> If "since" or "until" describes date/time at an accuracy of days or\r
+>> less, the values are rounded according to the accuracy, towards past\r
+>> for "since" and towards future for "until". For example,\r
+>> date:november..yesterday would match from the beginning of November\r
+>> until the end of yesterday. Expressions such as date:today..today\r
+>> means since the beginning of today until the end of today.\r
+>\r
+> 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
+For me, date:monday..wednesday means all messages received on monday,\r
+tuseday or wednesday. If I say Wednesday, I'm really interested in\r
+Wednesday and not the day before Wednesday.\r
+\r
+I'd also like to allow syntax like date:yesterday with the meaning all\r
+messages sent yesterday. My idea how to implement this was described in\r
+id:"87bovryqp0.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz". Unfortunately, I have no time to\r
+implement it myself.\r
+\r
+-Michal\r