On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:26:11 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
wrote:
> Currently we have to enter mail dates as timestamps. This approach
> does 2 things: it requires the prefix 'date:' and it allows timestamps
> to be specified as YYYY, YYYYMM or YYYYMMDD. So a notmuch show
> date:2005..20060512 will find all mails from 2005-01-01 until
> 2006-05-12. The code is probably not in a proper location yet and
> needs to be shoved around by someone more knowledgable than me. My C++
> skills are somewhat,... lacking...
Here's some code which further improves date parsing by allowing lots of
date formats, including things like "today", "thisweek", ISO and US date
formats and month names. You can separate two dates with .. to make a
range, or you can just use the default range ("lastmonth" is everything
