# HG changeset patch
# User Tomas Zeman <tzeman@volny.cz>
# Date 1442467479 -7200
# Node ID eace2739e6b8020c163f6177a4828207d506fd5f
# Parent  338868970affa05fbab3b690a8c937a5fa666b2e
mutt/search-by-date

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+http://promberger.info/linux/2009/07/23/mutt-limit-or-search-by-date/
+
+The following will not work:
+
+~d < 1w
+
+Use this instead:
+
+~d <1w
+
+Also, remember mutt uses the "AND" operator by default, so do not add & or &&
+to combine searches using AND. Instead, just string them together. Say you want
+to see all mail to, from, or cc a specific address group, sent in the last
+seven days, do l for limit, or / for search, followed by:
+
+%L groupname ~d <1w
+
+Addendum
+
+It seems you cannot, by the way, combine the relational < or > searches with an
+absolute date. You can, however, add an error margin to an absolute date,
+usually achieving what you want to do. The error margin can be before (-),
+after (+), or both, using *. Like this:
+
+Up to one month before date:
+
+~d 30/10/08-1m
+
+Up to five days after this date of the current year:
+
+~d 04/05+5d
+
+One week before and after date:
+
+~d 27/02/2009*1w
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#date-patterns
+
+3.4. Searching by Date
+
+Mutt supports two types of dates, absolute and relative.
+
+3.4.1. Absolute Dates
+
+Dates must be in DD/MM/YY format (month and year are optional, defaulting to
+the current month and year). An example of a valid range of dates is:
+
+Limit to messages matching: ~d 20/1/95-31/10
+
+If you omit the minimum (first) date, and just specify “-DD/MM/YY”, all
+messages before the given date will be selected. If you omit the maximum
+(second) date, and specify “DD/MM/YY-”, all messages after the given date will
+be selected. If you specify a single date with no dash (“-”), only messages
+sent on the given date will be selected.
+
+You can add error margins to absolute dates. An error margin is a sign (+ or
+-), followed by a digit, followed by one of the units in Table 4.6, “Date
+units”. As a special case, you can replace the sign by a “*” character, which
+is equivalent to giving identical plus and minus error margins.
+
+Table 4.6. Date units
+Unit	Description
+y	Years
+m	Months
+w	Weeks
+d	Days
+
+Example: To select any messages two weeks around January 15, 2001, you'd use
+the following pattern:
+
+Limit to messages matching: ~d 15/1/2001*2w
+
+3.4.2. Relative Dates
+
+This type of date is relative to the current date, and may be specified as:
+
+    >offset for messages older than offset units
+
+    <offset for messages newer than offset units
+
+    =offset for messages exactly offset units old 
+
+offset is specified as a positive number with one of the units from Table 4.6,
+“Date units”.
+
+Example: to select messages less than 1 month old, you would use
+
+Limit to messages matching: ~d <1m
+