unit_count

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This setting is only used with the age filtertype, or
with the space filtertype if use_age is set to True.

 - filtertype: age
   source: creation_date
   direction: older
   unit: days
   unit_count: 3

The value of this setting will be used as a multiplier for unit.

unit, unit_count, and optionally, epoch, are used by Curator to establish the moment in time point of reference with this formula:

point_of_reference = epoch - ((number of seconds in unit) * unit_count)

units are calculated as follows:

Unit Seconds Note

seconds

1

One second

minutes

60

Calculated as 60 seconds

hours

3600

Calculated as 60 minutes (60*60)

days

86400

Calculated as 24 hours (24*60*60)

weeks

604800

Calculated as 7 days (7*24*60*60)

months

2592000

Calculated as 30 days (30*24*60*60)

years

31536000

Calculated as 365 days (365*24*60*60)

If epoch is unset, the current time is used. It is possible to set a point of reference in the future by using a negative value for unit_count.

This setting must be set by the user or an exception will be raised, and execution will halt.

If this setting is used in conjunction with unit_count_pattern, the configured value will only be used as a fallback value in case the pattern could not be matched. The value -1 has a special meaning in this case and causes the index to be ignored when pattern matching fails.

See the age filter documentation for more information about time calculation.