I'm doing a search to count the number of messaes for a certain period of time. I am using the method as specified in this previous question: "http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Discussion/quot-Realtime-quot-metric-amp-for-a-certain-period-via-REST-API/m-p/53352/highlight/true#M1766" This is the format of the query that I used: "http://forums.autodesk.com/restapi/vc/categories/id/2004/boards/id/101/search/messages/count?q=date%3A%5B" + start + "%20TO%" + end + "%5D&collapse_discussion=false" Im querying this from java and I keep modifying the start and end date to get the weekly trend of number of posts. However the result that I get is totally different than the ones I get from the administrator page. This is the result that I get from my query Now is 2014-06-20 Total of messages on this week : 110 Now is 2014-06-13 Total of messages on this week : 203 Now is 2014-06-06 Total of messages on this week : 342 Now is 2014-05-30 Total of messages on this week : 429 Now is 2014-05-23 Total of messages on this week : 530 Now is 2014-05-16 Total of messages on this week : 631 Now is 2014-05-09 Total of messages on this week : 753 Now is 2014-05-02 Total of messages on this week : 866 Now is 2014-04-25 Total of messages on this week : 934 Now is 2014-04-18 Total of messages on this week : 1049 Since the number keeps increasing while the starting date is getting older, I suspect that the date parameters to limit the search result does not work properly. Any thoughts on where I went wrong? Thank you!