Allow a `/changesets` API call combining `order=oldest` and `time=` about openstreetmap-website HOT 2 CLOSED

You can use order with from and to parameters instead. There is a slight difference between from/to and time: from/to only check when changesets were created; time checks for overlaps between changeset [open..closed] time spans and [T1..T2] parameter values. The latter a more complicated check that doesn't allow to use db indexes efficiently together with the reversed order.

from/to parameters are supposed to look similar to notes search api calls.

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Thanks @AntonKhorev.

I tried https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changesets.json\?time\=2020-01-01T00:00:00,2020-01-01T00:01:00 just now and it took 1 minute 15 seconds to return. So you are probably right that this a more expensive operation on the DB side, and not the type of query you'd want to do many of in a row. But since it's theoretically possible, I will close this ticket. Thanks for taking a look.

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