[MlMt] Search for emails after a specific date and time

[Devyn Osborne]

Wow appreciate the help thinking through this! I like the extra steps that
shows what's possible through compound searches and a little clever
thinking.


On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM Bill Cole <
mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:

> On 2025-09-06 at 13:25:24 UTC-0400 (Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:25:24 -0700)
> John Cooper <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
> > Bill Cole wrote (at 9:46 AM on Saturday, September 6, 2025):
> >
> >> On 2025-09-05 at 17:28:49 UTC-0400 (Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:28:49 -0700)
> >> Devyn Osborne <mailmate at lists.freron.com> said:
> >>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to search for emails after a specific date *and time*?
> For example, every email since 2025-09-03 at 4:00pm.
> >>>
> >>> I easily found the search parameter to search for emails by date (Date
> > is after > date), but once I add time, “is after” is not an option.
> >>
> >> The search in the attached image seems to work. It is not elegant. Note
> that the series of matches on the formatted dates all have a leading space,
> so it won't catch those numbers in the minute field.
> >
> > Wow! That's a pretty hairy (and ingenious) workaround. Of course, it
> only works for those who use 24-hour formatting, which is uncommon in the
> US.
>
> One could add a condition to that subset of conditions requiring that 'PM'
> is in the formatted date, and switch to looking for 4-11.
>
>
>
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