Last-updated filter not working for Github projects

[jhuys]

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Steps:

1. Go to the default view of your project (github.com/orgs/(organisation)/projects/(id)/views/1)
2. Click on the filter input bar
3. Add a last-updated-based filter: for instance last-updated:28days

Expected:
Any issues that haven't been updated for the last 28 days are filtered out.

Actual:
No filtering takes place. All issues are shown instead.

Update:
It looks like the filtering stops working when:

• using a "last updated" period that is greater than 17 days
• omitting the - in front of last-updated:17days

So, it only works when -last-updated:17days or something similar is filled in.

Links:
This piece of documentation outlines how the last-updated filter should be used:
https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/customizing-views-in-your-project/filtering-projects#filtering-for-when-an-item-was-last-updated

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[zsloane]

There seems to be a similar issue with the updated filter. Anything beyond about 2 weeks seems to not work.

I'm currently using updated:<@today-2w but as soon as I go farther back than that nothing is shown (even though there are plenty of issues that should be returned

[GeoJunkie]

There seems to be something that happened on January 27th. I check this periodically and the place where it breaks shifts. Today, it works with last-updated:31days, but not last-updated:32days, and it seems to consistently increment daily.

[rileybroughten]

👋 Following a rollout on January 25th, 2024, there was an unexpected impact to the updated timestamps of items. If an updated filter is included specifying a date after this time period, results should be returned as expected. We are working on a fix to resolve this issue for items updated before this date, which is causing the unexpected results as pointed out above.

I'll post an update here once this is resolved. Apologies for the inconvenience and we appreciate your patience as we get this sorted out!

[tboddyspargo]

Any update, @rileybroughten ? I'm trying to filter an insights chart and noticing this limitation that doesn't align with documentation on project filters:

[jonmpoole80]

Has this been resolved because I am having this issue myself currently, however no variation of updated is working for me at all. If I remove it then I get results, as soon as I add it always 0 when it should be more than that.

[neilzilla]

Any update on this? it's 2026 and I'm experiencing the same thing