diff --git a/test/notmuch-test b/test/notmuch-test
index 7eadfdfd..9a1b3758 100755
--- a/test/notmuch-test
+++ b/test/notmuch-test
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ TESTS="
   emacs-show
   missing-headers
   parse-time-string
+  search-date
 "
 TESTS=${NOTMUCH_TESTS:=$TESTS}
 
diff --git a/test/search-date b/test/search-date
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..70bcf344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/search-date
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+test_description="date:since..until queries"
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+add_email_corpus
+
+test_begin_subtest "Absolute date range"
+output=$(notmuch search date:2010-12-16..12/16/2010 | notmuch_search_sanitize)
+test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX   2010-12-16 [1/1] Olivier Berger; Essai accentué (inbox unread)"
+
+test_begin_subtest "Absolute time range with TZ"
+notmuch search date:18-Nov-2009_02:19:26-0800..2009-11-18_04:49:52-06:00 | notmuch_search_sanitize > OUTPUT
+cat <<EOF >EXPECTED
+thread:XXX   2009-11-18 [1/3] Carl Worth| Jan Janak; [notmuch] What a great idea! (inbox unread)
+thread:XXX   2009-11-18 [1/2] Carl Worth| Jan Janak; [notmuch] [PATCH] Older versions of install do not support -C. (inbox unread)
+thread:XXX   2009-11-18 [1/3] Carl Worth| Aron Griffis, Keith Packard; [notmuch] archive (inbox unread)
+thread:XXX   2009-11-18 [1/2] Carl Worth| Keith Packard; [notmuch] [PATCH] Make notmuch-show 'X' (and 'x') commands remove inbox (and unread) tags (inbox unread)
+EOF
+test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT EXPECTED
+
+test_done