[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] changesets API call with time range does not work as expected (#1204)

[Tobias Zwick]

I had to read your explanation a few times to grasp the logic/use case you present, I find it very hard to understand.

So, the use case _"get all changesets that were open at some time between 1:30 PM and 3:30PM"_ translates to
_"created before 3:30PM but closed after 1:30PM"_ (-> `changesets?time=1:30PM,3:30PM`)

So the difference between the current implementation and the one that I expected is that the current implementation is "greedy", returning any changesets whose time being open merely overlap with the specified time range while the one I expected would only return changesets whose time being open were fully within the specified time range.

Okay, I get it. I think then we can establish that this is not a bug and indeed the current implementation returns a meaningful result - simply the documentation needs to be updated to explain it better.

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