Relative time period

Page last updated 24 September 2024

A Relative Time Period is a token that the Delivery API can convert to a date-time value relative to the current UTC date-time. It can be used stand-alone as an operand in search queries or passed as a parameter to any of the date-time Expression Functions. Used outside of an Expression Function now() is implied. That is, "-1d" is equivalent to "now(-1d)".

Syntax

The token consists of 1 or more space-delimited segments and can optionally contain a preceding plus or minus sign. Thus the syntax is:

<token>:=

[- | +]<segment>[ <segement> ...n]

<segment>:=

<int>y|M|w|d|h|m

Used stand-alone to list records created in the last 24 hours.

JSON

{
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "pageSize": 25,
    "where": [
        {
            "field": "sys.version.created",
            "greaterThanOrEqualTo": "-1d"
        }
    ]
}

Used stand-alone to list records created since the start of the last week of the previous month.

JSON

{
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "pageSize": 25,
    "where": [
        {
            "field": "sys.version.created",
            "greaterThanOrEqualTo": "-1M 1w"
        }
    ]
}

Used as a parameter to an Expression Function to list records created last year.

JSON

{
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "pageSize": 25,
    "where": [
        {
            "field": "sys.version.created",
            "greaterThanOrEqualTo": "startOfYear(-1)"
        },
        {
            "field": "sys.version.created",
            "lessThanOrEqualTo": "endOfYear(-1)"
        }
    ]
}

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