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Great summary. However, since this seems to be the top search result for "github gist search syntax", here is a correction/update.
As far as I can tell,
pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD
is not a valid search parameter. Perhaps it was at one point in time.BROKEN:
pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD
WORKING:
updated:>YYYY-MM-DD
created:>YYYY-MM-DD
Examples searches
workshop pushed:>2019-12-01
workshop updated:>2019-12-01
workshop created:>2019-12-01
Screenshot evidence
(the 3 results using updated are for this gist and 2 similar)