From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90061431FAF for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:32:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] 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 oEXA-Ej6IEhU for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D24C3431FAE for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TC8ay-00085b-CE; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:32:36 -0300 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TC8as-00053L-Vg; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:32:31 -0300 From: David Bremner To: Michal Nazarewicz , Jani Nikula , notmuch@notmuchmail.org 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 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:32:30 -0300 Message-ID: <878vce5cip.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - 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: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:32:43 -0000 Michal Nazarewicz writes: > 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. I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough. d