Re: Some questions about file handling + some other things

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:55:12AM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> > > That should have read "searching for all items that have either an
> > > empty end-date or one in the future". And the query I've given as
> > > an example searches in the past, so the correct query string (I
> > > hope) would be '.;,-'  
> > 
> > Thank you for the explanation on dates and intervals.
> > (Do you mean "... or one in the past"?)  
> 
> ? I don't understand the question.
> The first expression I gave was 
> ';.,-'
> The second was
> '.;,-'
> 
> So the first translates to
> "From -infinity to now or empty"
> which means dates in the past.
> 
> The second translates to
> "From now to infinity or empty"
> which means dates in the future.
> 
> But I don't know if this answers the question.
> 
> Ralf

OK, this is clear, I must have overlooked something. I did not even
realise that we had two different expressions here. :)