#431: WebSearch: fix test case searching by date 1976-04-01 and t dog
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Reporter: simko | Owner: valkyrie
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: v1.0
Component: WebSearch | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Changes (by jblayloc):
* owner: jblayloc => valkyrie
* status: new => assigned
Comment:
This should definitely get moved to the dateutil-only testing section.
The strange behavior is intentional, and is the result of two different
things. First, dateutil always attaches a day to dates. You can't have
it parse a month alone and, by default, when no day is given, it assigns
01. So we can't know for sure whether the user actually meant the first
day of the month or the whole month. And SPIRES syntax typically allows
people to leave the day unspecified, so there's a minor disconnect there.
Second, the year: index (and possibly others) contain entries like 1994-04
which should perfectly well come up when searching for the whole of April,
1994, but not otherwise. Because dates are sorted lexicographically, the
only way to be sure you get *every* date in April is to ask for date >
1994-04 rather than, say, > 1994-04-01. Also, without a day attached to
index entries, we can't know which date they're for, so there's some
intrinsic ambiguity there.
The combination of these two behaviours made me think that I should err on
the side of returning too much rather than too little. Particularly as
the most common use of these date manipulations appears to be as a stand-
in for RSS-like things; the problem of having a little extra material
seems smaller than the problem of missing some things.
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