From 40c1ac1e3108d0b724e8da79af7e64ec75788c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Sojka Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:15:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support --- 37/e4c2ced22ebf7633267786a3c66637ec1dee33 | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+) create mode 100644 37/e4c2ced22ebf7633267786a3c66637ec1dee33 diff --git a/37/e4c2ced22ebf7633267786a3c66637ec1dee33 b/37/e4c2ced22ebf7633267786a3c66637ec1dee33 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b59cbbbf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/37/e4c2ced22ebf7633267786a3c66637ec1dee33 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FE4431E84 + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:23:29 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -2.3 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id NxzUVKMTKEyJ for ; + Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:23:27 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from max.feld.cvut.cz (max.feld.cvut.cz [147.32.192.36]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CD7429E34 + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:23:15 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.200.4]) + by max.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2CC3CFF59; + Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:22:26 +0200 (CEST) +X-Virus-Scanned: IMAP AMAVIS +Received: from max.feld.cvut.cz ([192.168.200.1]) + by localhost (styx.feld.cvut.cz [192.168.200.4]) (amavisd-new, + port 10044) + with ESMTP id vXk216IIFgjI; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:22:17 +0200 (CEST) +Received: from imap.feld.cvut.cz (imap.feld.cvut.cz [147.32.192.34]) + by max.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADCA19F33A8; + Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:16:01 +0200 (CEST) +Received: from steelpick.2x.cz (unknown [213.29.198.144]) + (Authenticated sender: sojkam1) + by imap.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E1E8660968; + Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:15:52 +0200 (CEST) +Received: from wsh by steelpick.2x.cz with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1TGU3G-0001g5-Mu; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:15:46 +0200 +From: Michal Sojka +To: Michal Nazarewicz , Jani Nikula , + notmuch@notmuchmail.org, David Bremner +Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support +In-Reply-To: +References: + <532340d05ea748518c021048900bb83149e04e88.1347484177.git.jani@nikula.org> + +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+23~g9d68aca (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:15:46 +0200 +Message-ID: <87wqzi1eod.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:23:29 -0000 + +On Thu, Sep 13 2012, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: +> On Wed, Sep 12 2012, Jani Nikula wrote: +>> Add a custom value range processor to enable date and time searches of +>> the form date:since..until, where "since" and "until" are expressions +>> understood by the previously added date/time parser, to restrict the +>> results to messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: +>> header). +>> +>> If "since" or "until" describes date/time at an accuracy of days or +>> less, the values are rounded according to the accuracy, towards past +>> for "since" and towards future for "until". For example, +>> date:november..yesterday would match from the beginning of November +>> until the end of yesterday. Expressions such as date:today..today +>> means since the beginning of today until the end of today. +> +> IMO this is totally unintuitive and not how the range should work. +> date:foo..bar should return messages whose date >= foo and < bar. So +> for instance date:november..yesterday should return messages whose date +> is > 2012/11/01 00:00:00 and < 2012/09/12 00:00:00. So to get +> yesterdays messages one would do: date:yesterday..today. + +For me, date:monday..wednesday means all messages received on monday, +tuseday or wednesday. If I say Wednesday, I'm really interested in +Wednesday and not the day before Wednesday. + +I'd also like to allow syntax like date:yesterday with the meaning all +messages sent yesterday. My idea how to implement this was described in +id:"87bovryqp0.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz". Unfortunately, I have no time to +implement it myself. + +-Michal -- 2.26.2