Yes! I'm sooo looking forward to this feature!

One of the sites I work on is a newspaper, and it was necessary to display content in specific date dependent ways. For example, the "Breaking News" would only appear a day of it being published (after that it gets moved to general news). As breaking news is rare-ish, it's quite noticeable when the top of the page features a breaking news story.

Now, although I could simply write a query to show today's posts from the "Breaking News" category, that is is only good for that situation. What if I want the last two days? Or what if I want all stories from last week?

It's always smarter to write "dumb" code. Code that is generic, that can take any parameters, not hard coded to a specific one.

So, I figured how hard could it be? Freaking hard! Even with WP's instructions on injecting clauses into the WHERE statement, it caused no end of trouble. And in fact, is still not working perfectly yet.

The new date range will be a god send for me and this task. (I haven't coded it yet simply because of priorities - I mean, my old code is mostly working. :P )