From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams)
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:44:08 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] Natural language date searches
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On 9.11.2007, Marcus Williams wrote:
> On 9.11.2007, William Morgan wrote:
> > Modified to skip parsing if Chronic isn't available, and applied.
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Also made it accept one-word Chronic tokens without parentheses,
> > although "after:yesterday" means "after yesterday noon", which maybe is
> > not so useful...
> 
> I think I may have worked out how to fix that - change the parse
> method to be:
> 
> realdate = Chronic.parse(datestr, :guess => false).begin

Mmmm - in fact it might be that you want to use .begin when you are
searching "before", but .end when you are searching "after"

That way searches like after:yesterday or after:(last monday) do what
you expect. Patch attached 

Marcus
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