diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index d3a05ffa9..7831d5e74 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -2723,7 +2723,7 @@ en:
         <tr><td><code>category:foo</code></td><td><code>user:foo</code></td><td><code>group:foo</code></td><td><code>badge:foo</code></td><td></td></tr>
         <tr><td><code>in:likes</code></td><td><code>in:posted</code></td><td><code>in:watching</code></td><td><code>in:tracking</code></td><td><code>in:private</code></td></tr>
         <tr><td><code>in:bookmarks</code></td><td><code>in:first</code></td><td colspan=3></td></tr>
-        <tr><td><code>posts_count:num</code></td><td><code>min_age:days</code></td><td><code>max_age:days</code></td> <td colspan=2></td></tr>
+        <tr><td><code>posts_count:num</code></td><td><code>before:days or date</code></td><td><code>after:days or date</code></td> <td colspan=2></td></tr>
         </table>
       </p>
       <h3>Examples</h3>
diff --git a/lib/search.rb b/lib/search.rb
index a7c5c1212..fb8b989a4 100644
--- a/lib/search.rb
+++ b/lib/search.rb
@@ -94,6 +94,40 @@ class Search
     data
   end
 
+  def self.word_to_date(str)
+
+    if str =~ /^[0-9]{1,3}$/
+      return Time.zone.now.beginning_of_day.days_ago(str.to_i)
+    end
+
+    if str =~ /^([12][0-9]{3})(-([0-1]?[0-9]))?(-([0-3]?[0-9]))?$/
+      year = $1.to_i
+      month = $2 ? $3.to_i : 1
+      day = $4 ? $5.to_i : 1
+
+      return if day==0 || month==0 || day > 31 || month > 12
+
+      return Time.zone.parse("#{year}-#{month}-#{day}") rescue nil
+    end
+
+    if str.downcase == "yesterday"
+      return Time.zone.now.beginning_of_day.yesterday
+    end
+
+    titlecase = str.downcase.titlecase
+
+    if Date::DAYNAMES.include?(titlecase)
+      return Time.zone.now.beginning_of_week(str.downcase.to_sym)
+    end
+
+    if idx = (Date::MONTHNAMES.find_index(titlecase) ||
+              Date::ABBR_MONTHNAMES.find_index(titlecase))
+      delta = Time.zone.now.month - idx
+      delta += 12 if delta < 0
+      Time.zone.now.beginning_of_month.months_ago(delta)
+    end
+  end
+
   def initialize(term, opts=nil)
     @opts = opts || {}
     @guardian = @opts[:guardian] || Guardian.new
@@ -251,14 +285,20 @@ class Search
     end
   end
 
-  advanced_filter(/min_age:(\d+)/) do |posts,match|
-    n = match.to_i
-    posts.where("topics.created_at > ?", n.days.ago)
+  advanced_filter(/before:(.*)/) do |posts,match|
+    if date = Search.word_to_date(match)
+      posts.where("posts.created_at < ?", date)
+    else
+      posts
+    end
   end
 
-  advanced_filter(/max_age:(\d+)/) do |posts,match|
-    n = match.to_i
-    posts.where("topics.created_at < ?", n.days.ago)
+  advanced_filter(/after:(.*)/) do |posts,match|
+    if date = Search.word_to_date(match)
+      posts.where("posts.created_at > ?", date)
+    else
+      posts
+    end
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/spec/components/search_spec.rb b/spec/components/search_spec.rb
index 71d5da7cd..42a4f1866 100644
--- a/spec/components/search_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/search_spec.rb
@@ -408,15 +408,21 @@ describe Search do
 
   describe 'Advanced search' do
 
-    it 'supports min_age and max_age in:first user:' do
-      topic = Fabricate(:topic, created_at: 3.months.ago)
-      Fabricate(:post, raw: 'hi this is a test 123 123', topic: topic)
+    it 'supports before and after in:first user:' do
+
+      time = Time.zone.parse('2001-05-20 2:55')
+      freeze_time(time)
+
+      topic = Fabricate(:topic)
+      Fabricate(:post, raw: 'hi this is a test 123 123', topic: topic, created_at: time.months_ago(2))
       _post = Fabricate(:post, raw: 'boom boom shake the room', topic: topic)
 
-      expect(Search.execute('test min_age:100').posts.length).to eq(1)
-      expect(Search.execute('test min_age:10').posts.length).to eq(0)
-      expect(Search.execute('test max_age:10').posts.length).to eq(1)
-      expect(Search.execute('test max_age:100').posts.length).to eq(0)
+      expect(Search.execute('test before:1').posts.length).to eq(1)
+      expect(Search.execute('test before:2001-04-20').posts.length).to eq(1)
+      expect(Search.execute('test before:2001').posts.length).to eq(0)
+      expect(Search.execute('test before:monday').posts.length).to eq(1)
+
+      expect(Search.execute('test after:jan').posts.length).to eq(1)
 
       expect(Search.execute('test in:first').posts.length).to eq(1)
       expect(Search.execute('boom').posts.length).to eq(1)
@@ -512,5 +518,34 @@ describe Search do
     Post.exec_sql("SELECT to_tsvector('bbb') @@ " << ts_query)
   end
 
+  context '#word_to_date' do
+    it 'parses relative dates correctly' do
+      time = Time.zone.parse('2001-02-20 2:55')
+      freeze_time(time)
+
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('yesterday')).to eq(time.beginning_of_day.yesterday)
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('suNday')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2001-02-18'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('thursday')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2001-02-15'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('deCember')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2000-12-01'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('deC')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2000-12-01'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('january')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2001-01-01'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('jan')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2001-01-01'))
+
+
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('100')).to eq(time.beginning_of_day.days_ago(100))
+
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('invalid')).to eq(nil)
+    end
+
+    it 'parses absolute dates correctly' do
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('2001-1-20')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2001-01-20'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('2030-10-2')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2030-10-02'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('2030-10')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2030-10-01'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('2030')).to eq(Time.zone.parse('2030-01-01'))
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('2030-01-32')).to eq(nil)
+      expect(Search.word_to_date('10000')).to eq(nil)
+    end
+  end
+
 end