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Subject: Re: trouble searching with unix timestamps
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On Mon 2018-01-29 16:13:38 +0000, Matthew Lear wrote:
> [ Jani wrote: ]
>> Alternatively, you can use @<timestamp> in date: queries, although this
>> seems to be completely undocumented:
>
> I guess this relates to similar syntax requirements of date -d in that a
> unix timestamp is required to be preceded by an @

agreed, it seems in line with that.

Matthew, since you've been reading the docs there most recently, maybe
you'd be up for sending a patch to make sure this feature is findable in
the documentation?

    --dkg