How to use min/max with sort

Question

While some sort values make inference of the expected min/max values less than ambiguous, others do not.

Pending formal documentation, I hope this can serve as an informal reference.

Aggregated sort values and corresponding min/max datatype

• activity : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
• creation : unix timestamp - creation date range
• added : unix timestamp - added date range
• reputation : integer - reputation count range
• views : integer - view count range
• votes : integer - vote count range
• popular : integer - tag count range
• name : string - case insensitive range. e.g. to find exact match for users with display_name 'joey' you can send min=joey&max=joey
• featured : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
• hot : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
• month : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)
• week : unix timestamp - last activity date range (includes any activity?)

Special Sorts:

These sorts return the questions that are displayed on the front page of the site under the tab of the same name. min/max will further limit those sets to questions with a last_activity date that falls within that range.

• featured : Questions with an active bounty
• hot : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last few day
• week : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last week
• month : Questions with the most interest/activity in the last month

You can follow the comment trail on min/max parameters are incorrectly documented as date - confusion and crippled libraries ensue for some more info that may be edifying.