Revision spec issues

Robey Pointer robey at lag.net
Thu Feb 16 02:25:33 GMT 2006


On 14 Feb 2006, at 7:19, John A Meinel wrote:

> I agree that the date: markers probably need some work. I don't know
> anyone who is using them. When I originally wrote them 'yesterday',
> 'today' and 'tomorrow' where defined as exact timestamps, and then  
> the +
> would search for something *after* that timestamp, and the - for
> something before that timestamp. So doing date:-today, could go back a
> few days until it found the first thing before 12:01am this morning.

The concept of a revision matching "date:tomorrow" has always made my  
head explode.  Is it meant as a long-cut for "-1"?  Or a way to  
detect if your computer's ntp server is broken? ;)

robey





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