Add Date Constant: "now"

[raccoon]

Date Constants:
today
yesterday
tomorrow
<last|past|prev|current|this|coming|next><year|month|week>
<last|past|prev|coming|next><x><years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|mins|seconds|secs>
january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december
jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec
sunday|monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday
sun|mon|tue|wed|thu|fri|sat
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I wish to suggest adding the constant "now" which is similar to "today" but is accurate to the current minute or the current second (probably minute). The constant "today" presumably includes all results from midnight to midnight today, but "now" would only display files that were created or modified at this very moment. Example:

dm:<=now -- displays all files with a modified time of this minute or older, ignoring erroneous future-dated files exactly.

[NotNull]

You can already use something like

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dm:<last1seconds

or even dm:<last0seconds


Note: Those date constants work like a variable: they are set once when the query is executed and not updated.
It is expanded to a (static) date-range (at least: that's how I imagine the inner workings)
You have to re-execute that query to update it.

Example:
if you query dm:today on 22 October 23:59, that will give you the files modified on 22 October.
On 23 October 00:01 it will still give you the files modified on 22 October.

[raccoon]

Yes, I just discovered this as I had the query dm:<=today up and it stalled at midnight.

I wonder if it would be feasible or reasonable to have these constants update when the clock rolls over, ie, every midnight (today) or every minute (now).

[NotNull]

Feasible: probably
Reasonable: No. I would get really annoyed when during analyzing results, they would suddenly (dis)appear.

Just use rc: instead.

(My 2 cents)

[raccoon]

Honestly never used recentchanged:, is that looking at files with a dm: and dc: of a given date (default today)? similarly has to be reentered at midnight? I'm fine with that, just never used that func.

[NotNull]

Whereas the other date function give you a snapshot ("photo"), rc: will constantly update itself ("movie").
Just try it; that will probably explain it much better tahn I can