Searching backwards in calendar

It really amazes me that no one in the Apple iPAD/iPhone world seems to find wanting to search "backwards" in their calendar unimportant.
Not many people seem to know that you cannot search for anything in the Calendar a year prior to the current date.
I do this at least once a day on my PALM Calendar and it is such a useful tool for recalling events.

This has been commented on before from time to time. Since it doesn't come up very often, maybe we can infer that it's important only to a relatively small proportion of users. But I can well understand that, to that group, it is very important. To me, it's an irritation, but I take it as one of the compromises inherent in mobile computing. What with 64GB iPads etc, many of those compromises should now be things of the past (256K Palm Pilot anyone?).
If you haven't already done so, you can leave feedback at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Apple doesn't reply directly to feedback posts, but does read and take note of them
Message was edited by: nick101

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You're welcome.
I used "you" as in plural regarding anyone and everyone that uses the iPhone feedback link - the same applies to anyone and everyone that does so, not just you as an individual or as being the only one that wants this feature.
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This is a repost from http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10954384
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bind '"M-[A": history-search-backward'
bind '"M-[B": history-search-forward'
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{quote}
"": history-search-forward
{quote}
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GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
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use function module
<b>FU F4_DATE</b>
Text
<b>Display factory calendar or Gregor. calendar and choose a day</b>
see also the parameter documentation (long texts).
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otherwise
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ipad 32GB with retina (purchased on 2012) ios version 7.1.2
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