diff --git a/tests/dates/dates.sh b/tests/dates/dates.sh
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+++ b/tests/dates/dates.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+topdir=`dirname $0`/..
+. $topdir/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+# 2nd one result
+
+(
+# no results because of the negative clause
+recollq date:/2009 -1 datetest
+# one result: the 2008 file
+recollq date:/2009    datetest
+# one result: 2008 file
+recollq date:2007-01-01/2010-02-09 datetest
+# 2 results : files from 10 and 11 march 2010
+recollq date:2010-03-10/P10D datetest
+# 0 result: no such term
+recollq date:2010-03-10/P10D datetestnotermsmatch
+) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/dates/dates.txt b/tests/dates/dates.txt
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+0 results
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/dates/datetest1.txt]	[datetest1.txt]	11	bytes	
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/dates/datetest1.txt]	[datetest1.txt]	11	bytes	
+2 results
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/dates/datetest3.txt]	[datetest3.txt]	11	bytes	
+text/plain	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/dates/datetest4.txt]	[datetest4.txt]	11	bytes	
+0 results