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--- a/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7.mdwn
+++ b/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7.mdwn
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
folder:<directory-path>
+ date:<since>..<until>
+
The from: prefix is used to match the name or address of the sender of
an email message.
@@ -81,37 +83,146 @@
the directory components below the top-level mail database path are
available to be searched.
- In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with
- Boolean operators ( and, or, not , etc.). Each term in the query will
- be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no explicit operator is
- provided, (except that terms with a common prefix will be implicitly
- combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 fixed).
+ The date: prefix can be used to restrict the results to only messages
+ within a particular time range (based on the Date: header) with a range
+ syntax of:
- Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
- operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
- shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
- expression).
+ date:<since>..<until>
- Finally, results can be restricted to only messages within a particular
- time range, (based on the Date: header) with a syntax of:
+ See DATE AND TIME SEARCH below for details on the range expression, and
+ supported syntax for <since> and <until> date and time expressions.
+
+ The time range can also be specified using timestamps with a syntax of:
<initial-timestamp>..<final-timestamp>
Each timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since
- 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. This is not the most convenient means of
- expressing date ranges, but until notmuch is fixed to accept a more
- convenient form, one can use the date program to construct timestamps.
- For example, with the bash shell the following syntax would specify a
- date range to return messages from 2009-10-01 until the current time:
+ 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
+
+ In addition to individual terms, multiple terms can be combined with
+ Boolean operators ( and, or, not , etc.). Each term in the query will
+ be implicitly connected by a logical AND if no explicit operator is
+ provided, (except that terms with a common prefix will be implicitly
+ combined with OR until we get Xapian defect #402 fixed).
+
+ Parentheses can also be used to control the combination of the Boolean
+ operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the
+ shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
+ expression).
+
+
+DATE AND TIME SEARCH
+
+ notmuch understands a variety of standard and natural ways of express-
+ ing dates and times, both in absolute terms ("2012-10-24") and in rela-
+ tive terms ("yesterday"). Any number of relative terms can be combined
+ ("1 hour 25 minutes") and an absolute date/time can be combined with
+ relative terms to further adjust it. A non-exhaustive description of
+ the syntax supported for absolute and relative terms is given below.
+
+ The range expression
+
+ date:<since>..<until>
+
+ The above expression restricts the results to only messages
+ from <since> to <until>, based on the Date: header.
+
+ <since> and <until> can describe imprecise times, such as "yes-
+ terday". In this case, <since> is taken as the earliest time
+ it could describe (the beginning of yesterday) and <until> is
+ taken as the latest time it could describe (the end of yester-
+ day). Similarly, date:january..february matches from the begin-
+ ning of January to the end of February.
+
+ Currently, we do not support spaces in range expressions. You
+ can replace the spaces with '_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in
+ some cases) leave the spaces out altogether. Examples in this
+ man page use spaces for clarity.
+
+ Open-ended ranges are supported (since Xapian 1.2.1), i.e. it's
+ possible to specify date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not
+ limit the start or end time, respectively. Pre-1.2.1 Xapian
+ does not report an error on open ended ranges, but it does not
+ work as expected either.
+
+ Entering date:expr without ".." (for example date:yesterday)
+ won't work, as it's not interpreted as a range expression at
+ all. You can achieve the expected result by duplicating the
+ expr both sides of ".." (for example date:yesterday..yester-
+ day).
+
+ Relative date and time
+ [N|number] (years|months|weeks|days|hours|hrs|minutes|mins|sec-
+ onds|secs) [...]
+
+ All refer to past, can be repeated and will be accumulated.
+
+ Units can be abbreviated to any length, with the otherwise
+ ambiguous single m being m for minutes and M for months.
+
+ Number can also be written out one, two, ..., ten, dozen, hun-
+ dred. Additionally, the unit may be preceded by "last" or
+ "this" (e.g., "last week" or "this month").
+
+ When combined with absolute date and time, the relative date
+ and time specification will be relative from the specified
+ absolute date and time.
+
+ Examples: 5M2d, two weeks
+
+ Supported absolute time formats
+ H[H]:MM[:SS] [(am|a.m.|pm|p.m.)]
+
+ H[H] (am|a.m.|pm|p.m.)
+
+ HHMMSS
+
+ now
+
+ noon
+
+ midnight
+
+ Examples: 17:05, 5pm
+
+ Supported absolute date formats
+ YYYY-MM[-DD]
+
+ DD-MM[-[YY]YY]
+
+ MM-YYYY
+
+ M[M]/D[D][/[YY]YY]
+
+ M[M]/YYYY
+
+ D[D].M[M][.[YY]YY]
+
+ D[D][(st|nd|rd|th)] Mon[thname] [YYYY]
+
+ Mon[thname] D[D][(st|nd|rd|th)] [YYYY]
+
+ Wee[kday]
+
+ Month names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
+
+ Weekday names can be abbreviated at three or more characters.
+
+ Examples: 2012-07-31, 31-07-2012, 7/31/2012, August 3
+
+ Time zones
+ (+|-)HH:MM
+
+ (+|-)HH[MM]
- $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s)
+ Some time zone codes, e.g. UTC, EET.
SEE ALSO
- notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not-
+ notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not-
much-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
notmuch-search(1), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
-Notmuch 0.14
+Notmuch 0.15