# search function question... **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [November 4, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652 "2000-11-04T02:55:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 5 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![gillygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@gillygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gillygirl) #### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652/1 "2000-11-04T02:55:21Z")
You can only search threads from a max of 30 days ago? How are you supposed to be able to look at a posters previous threads from longer than that? Cecil doesn’t post very often at all and in 30 days will you even be able to search his previous posts? Or…am I just missing something here? LOL ---
### Author: ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva) #### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652/2 "2000-11-04T03:06:47Z")
5 days is the default. If you click on that box, you’ll get other options, including “Any Date,” which is everything. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
### Author: ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne) #### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652/3 "2000-11-04T15:05:52Z")
Trickily **gillygirl** the “any date” option is at the _top_ of the list, not below “last 30 days”. ---
### Author: ![gillygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@gillygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gillygirl) #### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652/4 "2000-11-04T15:32:09Z")
I can’t believe I missed that. I shall blame it on me posting after a 13 shift at work LOL Thank ya both! :o ---
### Author: ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture) #### Post date: [November 5, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-question/39652/5 "2000-11-05T17:13:20Z")
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