TODO: update entry on date range queries

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@@ -146,12 +146,13 @@ vs. tag-when-all-files-flagged (* above)).
 Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a
 filename.
 
 Add an interface to accept a "key" and a byte stream, rather than a
 filename.
 

-Provide a sane syntax for date ranges. First, we don't want to require
-both endpoints to be specified. For example it would be nice to be
-able to say things like "since:2009-01-1" or "until:2009-01-1" and
-have the other endpoint be implicit. Second we'd like to support
-relative specifications of time such as "since:'2 months ago'". To do
-any of this we're probably going to need to break down an write our
+Improve syntax for date ranges queries. date:expr should be
+interpreted as date:expr..expr so that, for example, "date:2013-01-22"
+would cover the whole of the specified day (currently that's not even
+recognized as a date range expression). It might be nice to be able to
+use things like "since:2013-01-22" and "until:2013-01-22" as synonyms
+to "date:2013-01-22.." and "date:..2013-01-22", respectively. To do
+any of this we're probably going to need to break down and write our

 own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser
 class.
 
 own parser for the query string rather than using Xapian's QueryParser
 class.