#4097 HIGH First D: Anytime in the journal search appears broken

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#4097: Anytime in the journal search appears broken
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  Reporter:  kimquirk          |       Owner:  marco                 
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by Eben):

 This is a tricky one, because it gets tied up in another absolute/relative
 time debate.  Is last week the relative measure of "the last seven days",
 or an absolute measure of "all days since the previous Sunday"?  Both are
 valid interpretations, but it's unclear which is the right choice.

 The argument for the absolute model is "yesterday", which we strongly
 associate with "the day before last midnight."  It's even possible that an
 absolute notion of "last week" is useful in the classroom, which is often
 (but I assume not always) structured by weeks. I hesitate to impose such a
 structured notion of time, however.

 As such, I think that the relative view makes more sense for longer blocks
 of time: weeks, months, years.  As these are filters, we really just want
 a means by which to "crop" off our view of time to focus on particular
 entries.  Perhaps the best solution for the short term is to rename them
 "since yesterday" (12-24 hour window, and the only "absolute" one), "past
 week", "past month", "past year", which more accurately conveys the
 relative notion of a particular length of time before the current date.
 This is my recommendation.

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