Sometimes you may want to scope searches to a subset or range of dates. Our search interface supports before
and after
search clauses. They accept a full date, name of month or day of week.
Examples:
-
before:june hashtag
- Posts with the search termhashtag
posted before last June -
before:2014 category:bug order:latest
- Posts in thebug
category created prior to 2014 -
after:friday broken
- Posts created after last Friday with the wordbroken
in them -
after:2016-01-12 before:2016-01-20 happy
- Posts created after 12th of Jan 2016 and before 20th of Jan 2016 with the wordhappy
-
after:june before:july in:first composer
- Searches the first post in topic created from last June for the wordcomposer
-
after:10 before:8 thing
- Posts containing the wordthing
that were posted between 8 and 10 days ago.
All dates are in UTC, we always use beginning of day UTC as the start time for any period.
The filter applies to created_at
date of posts, not to the date a topic is created. If you need to filter on topic creation use in:first