[MlMt] Rules "older than" question?

Robert Wall rswall at rswall.com
Thu Feb 18 15:02:20 EST 2021



On 18 Feb 2021, at 10:42, Tobias Jung wrote:

>> It feels like those > and < symbols are backwards. > 2 weeks ago and 
>> < 1 weeks ago doesn't feel like it should match anything - can 
>> anybody help me wrap my head around that syntax?
>
> My guess is that "> 2 weeks ago" is shorthand for "date is larger than 
> the Unix timestamp that represents the date two weeks ago", not for 
> "more than two weeks ago".
> (Newer messages have a larger timestamp than old ones.)

Ah, yeah - that makes all the sense in the world. I program PHP, so I 
actually work with timestamps all the time. Just didn't click here. 
Thanks!


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