- General rules for queries
- The following rules apply to queries of all kinds:
- Queries are not case sensitive.
- You can search for any word except for words on the exception list. To view the exception list for American English, see Exception-word list.
- To use special characters in a query, (such as &, |, ^, #, @, and $), enclose your query in quotation marks.
- Date and time values are of the form yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss or yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss. The first two characters of the year and the entire time can be omitted. If you omit the first two characters of the year, the date is interpreted as being between 1930 and 2029. A 3-digit millisecond value can be specified after the seconds value. All dates and times are in Coordinated Universal Time. For example, 1997/12/8 13:10:03:452
- Notes
- Dates and times relative to the current date and time can be expressed with a minus sign (-) followed by one or more integer unit and time unit pairs. Time units are expressed as: y for years, q for quarters (three months), m for months, w for weeks, d for days, h for hours, n for minutes, and s for seconds.
- Numeric values can be in decimal or hexadecimal. Hexadecimal values are preceded by '0x.'
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