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fix(search): complete @MrBeldum's #88 — local-day dates, tolerant timestamps, documented semantics - #89
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Bare before:/after: dates and today/yesterday used time.Parse / Truncate in UTC, so filters were off by the caller's offset (#86). Parse in time.Local, make before:DATE inclusive of that local day, and compare after: with >=. Also scan timestamps through coerceTimestamp so one unparseable row no longer fails the whole Search (#85).
The local-day parsing this builds on is a fix: a bare date was rendered in the caller's zone and compared against UTC-stored text, so `after:today` was off by the UTC offset. There is no way to keep the old behaviour there without keeping the bug, so it stays. Advancing the before: bound a day and relaxing after: to >= are a different kind of change. Nothing was wrong with either operator; what they mean is a choice, and both already had an answer. `before:DATE` has always been strictly before DATE began, and `after:DATE` strictly after midnight. Rows in an archive are not reasoning about which end of a range is closed, so moving a bound only moves which searches surprise someone — and it moves them silently, because a date filter that returns a day too much looks exactly like a date filter that works. So both bounds go back to what they were, and only the zone they are measured in changes. TestParse_BeforeIncludesNamedLocalDay pinned the reading not being adopted. It is rewritten rather than deleted, because the thing it was reaching for — that a bare before: date deserves a test — was right. It now pins both halves of what that date means: local, and midnight of the named day. TestBuildQuery_DateFiltersCompareStrictly is new, and covers the after: half. Asserted on the built SQL because no fixture row can land exactly on a bound, so a round trip through the database cannot tell > from >=, which is how that operator came to be changed with nothing failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the date-bounded FTS search of #84 together with the date-filter fixes of #88. The two overlap on one line of query.go and one of search.go, and the commit before this one already settled which reading wins, so the merge itself is mechanical: - buildQuery grew a periods parameter in #84, so the new TestBuildQuery_DateFiltersCompareStrictly passes nil for it. - TestSearch_DateFilterKeepsAnUnreadableTimestamp said Search could not return a row with an unparseable timestamp at all. #88 is what makes that false, so the comment goes, and the test now follows the row out through Search as well as into the index. That is the end-to-end half of #85, which had unit coverage on coerceTimestamp and none on the query that used to die of it. - The boundary test pins the zone it parses bare dates in. Its turns are stamped in UTC while a bare before:/after: date is parsed in the caller's zone, so unpinned it was asking a slightly different question on every machine. Pinned to a fixed +05:30 rather than to UTC, so the two sides still have to agree across an offset instead of agreeing by construction. The three boundary subtests that #84 turned red on #88 — before:2026-10-01, after:2026-09-30 before:2026-10-01, and after:2026-09-01 before:2026-09-30 — pass with their assertions untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Issue #86 asked for the date filters to be written down, and the reason is that `before:` is exclusive. A filter that quietly returns a day less than asked for does not look wrong — it looks like a result — so the only way anyone finds out is by checking a count by hand, and the four places that describe the operators all said "before date" and left it there. So each of them now says which end is closed: README.md the search syntax block, plus a short note on the asymmetry and how to include a day skills/ccvault/reference.md the operator table and the date formats table cmd/ccvault/main.go `orient`'s search_syntax map, and `search --help` The zone each kind of date resolves in is written down with it, because the two kinds do not agree and the difference is visible in a result. A written-out date is compared against the stored timestamp, which is UTC, so it names a UTC calendar day. The relative tokens are resolved on the caller's own calendar, which is the half of #86 that was a real defect: `today` used to be a UTC truncation, so in a negative offset during the evening it named tomorrow. Verified rather than reasoned about — a turn at 2026-10-01T02:00:00Z is returned by `after:2026-10-01` under both TZ=Etc/GMT+12 and TZ=Pacific/Kiritimati, which is a UTC day and not a local one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 88-90: Update parseDate and the timestamp storage/comparison path
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In **`modernc.org/sqlite` v1.45.0**, `time.Time` parameters are converted in the connection’s `bind` implementation in `sqlite.go`; `stmt.go` passes arguments to that binder before stepping the SQLite statement. ([raw.githubusercontent.com](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modernc-org/sqlite/v1.45.0/stmt.go))
The conversion is configurable per connection:
- **Default:** bind as a string using Go’s `time.Time.String()` format.
- **`_time_format=sqlite`:** bind as `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS[+-]HH:MM`.
- **`_time_integer_format=unix`, `unix_milli`, `unix_micro`, or `unix_nano`:** bind as an integer in the selected Unix-time unit; when set, it takes precedence over `_time_format`. ([raw.githubusercontent.com](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modernc-org/sqlite/v1.45.0/driver.go))
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Compare date filters by instant, not timestamp text.
parseDate creates local midnight, but the SQL compares SQLite timestamp text. The connection DSN does not set _time_format, so modernc.org/sqlite v1.45.0 binds time.Time using its default Go string representation. In UTC+05:30, 2026-09-30 20:00 UTC is after local midnight on October 1, but its stored date text still begins with 2026-09-30. The periodTermsFor pruning can also remove that row before the timestamp predicate runs.
Store and compare timestamps using one canonical instant representation, and derive FTS pruning from the same instant range. Update the fixed-zone expectations. For example, after:2026-10-01 must include the September 30 UTC turn, while after:2026-09-30 before:2026-10-01 must exclude it.
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Review comment at @internal/search/query.go around lines 88 - 90:
Update parseDate and the timestamp storage/comparison path to use one canonical
representation of instants instead of SQLite’s default time.Time text format;
ensure periodTermsFor derives FTS pruning from the same instant range so it
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Finishes @MrBeldum's #88, which fixes #85 and #86. This branch carries their commit (
2f964a4, unmodified and still authored by them) and adds the rebase-and-docs work on top, so they did not have to redo it against a moving target.#88 was good work — 21/21 green, lint clean, six targeted tests, and it found a real timezone defect nobody had written down. It went red through no fault of theirs: #84 landed first and added date-bounded FTS pruning, whose tests encode what
before:means. Asking a contributor to rebase onto that and then adjust the maintainer's assertions is backwards, so it is done here instead.What was kept
coerceTimestamp/parseStoredTimestamp(#85) — kept as-is. Pure robustness: one row with an unparseabletimestampno longer takes down the wholeSearch. Nothing else changes behaviour. It now has end-to-end coverage as well as the unit tests it arrived with —TestSearch_DateFilterKeepsAnUnreadableTimestampfollows a genuinely unreadable row out throughSearch, where previously that test could only assert on the index becauseSearchdied on the scan.Local-calendar date parsing (#86) — kept.
ParseInLocation, andtoday/yesterday/week/monthcomputed on the local calendar instead oftime.Now().Truncate(24 * time.Hour). The old truncation was a UTC truncation, so in a negative offset during the eveningafter:todaynamed tomorrow. There is no way to keep the old behaviour here without keeping the bug.What was reverted
before:exclusive → inclusive, andafter:>→>=— both reverted. These are not fixes; they are choices about what the operators mean, and both already had an answer.before:DATEhas always been strictly beforeDATEbegan, andafter:strictly after midnight. Moving a bound does not remove a surprise, it relocates it — and it relocates it silently, because a date filter returning a day too much looks exactly like a date filter that works.With those two reverted, the three boundary subtests #84 had turned red pass again with their assertions untouched:
internal/search/period.goandperiod_test.goare byte-identical tomain, so the pruning logic is untouched and nothing was loosened to make this fit.Also here
TestParse_BeforeIncludesNamedLocalDaywas rewritten, not deleted. It pinned the reading we are not adopting, but the instinct behind it was right: a barebefore:date deserves a test. It is nowTestParse_BeforeBoundIsLocalMidnightOfNamedDay, pinning both halves — local, and midnight of the named day.TestBuildQuery_DateFiltersCompareStrictlyis new, covering theafter:half. Asserted on the built SQL, because no fixture row can land exactly on a bound — which is how>became>=with nothing failing.The boundary test now pins the zone it parses bare dates in. Its turns are stamped UTC while a bare date is parsed in the caller's zone, so unpinned it was quietly asking a different question on every machine. Pinned to a fixed
+05:30rather than to UTC, so the two sides still have to agree across an offset instead of agreeing by construction, and to a fixed offset rather than a named zone so it does not need the machine's zoneinfo database.#86's documentation half is done — the four places that describe the operators all said "before date" and stopped:
README.md,skills/ccvault/reference.md, and bothorient'ssearch_syntaxmap andsearch --helpincmd/ccvault/main.go.One correction to #88's description, worth a look
#88's summary says bare dates now mean the caller's local day. They do not, and they did not before either. Measured, not reasoned about: a turn at
2026-10-01T02:00:00Zis returned byafter:2026-10-01under bothTZ=Etc/GMT+12andTZ=Pacific/Kiritimati.The reason is that the comparison never reaches the offset. A turn's
timestampis stored as RFC3339 (2026-10-01T00:00:00Z) while the driver binds a bound as Go'sString()form (2026-10-01 00:00:00 +0530 IST), so the two texts diverge at the separator —T(0x54) against a space (0x20) — and the zone suffix is never compared. A written-out date therefore names a UTC calendar day, in this branch and onmainalike.So
ParseInLocationon bare dates is a no-op at the predicate, and the local-calendar fix earns its keep entirely through the relative tokens, where the zone moves the date digits themselves. That is still a real fix, and the parsing is kept as #88 wrote it. The docs here describe what the code actually does rather than what the operators sound like.Two follow-ups fall out of this and are left alone deliberately, as neither is this PR's scope:
periodFilterDateinperiod.go(from perf: make a date-filtered search bound its own work #84, mine) describesturns.timestampas holding the driver'sString()rendering. It holds RFC3339. The conclusion the comment draws is still correct and the code is right; the stated reason is not.Verification
go build ./...clean;go test ./...21/21 with a cleared cache;go test -race ./internal/search/...green;golangci-lint run ./...0 issues. The search package also passes underTZ=UTC,Asia/Kolkata,Asia/Kathmandu,Pacific/KiritimatiandEtc/GMT+12.Separately confirmed that the period tokens still cannot under-admit: with
periodTermsforced to returnnil, the boundary equivalence test gives identical rows, so the terms change no answer — they over-admit at most thebefore:bound's own day, which the outerWHEREtrims. The pruning tests fail loudly under that same patch, so they are still measuring something.#88
Can be closed as superseded once this lands — the commit itself travels here. Thanks @MrBeldum; the timezone bug and the bad-timestamp crash were both real, and the test you argued for is in the tree, just pinned the other way round.
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