diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md
index 8bc8f270c..63412bb49 100644
--- a/docs/usage.md
+++ b/docs/usage.md
@@ -981,18 +981,21 @@ created:2005-03-04
 added:january
 modified:"next monday"
 added:"last monday"
+added:"2005-01-01T00:00:00Z"
 created:[2005-01-01 to 2005-01-31]
+added:[2005-06-15T09:00:00Z to 2005-06-15T17:00:00Z]
 ```
 
 - `tomorrow`, like `today` and `yesterday`, covers that whole day.
 - An ISO date such as `2005-03-04` covers that whole day, and `2005-01` covers that whole month.
 - A month name such as `january` covers that whole month in the current year.
 - `next <weekday>` and `last <weekday>` each cover that whole day and must be quoted. A bare weekday name such as `monday` is not accepted.
-- A range takes two of the above as its bounds, for example `created:[2005 to 2009]` or `added:[2005-01-01 to 2005-01-31]`.
+- A full timestamp such as `2005-01-01T00:00:00Z` matches that exact instant. Like the other expressions above, it has to be quoted when it stands on its own: `added:"2005-01-01T00:00:00Z"`.
+- A range takes two of the above as its bounds, for example `created:[2005 to 2009]` or `added:[2005-01-01 to 2005-01-31]`. Bounds may carry a time of day, and inside the brackets they are written without quotes.
 
 !!! warning
 
-    `now`, `noon`, `midnight` and relative offsets such as `"-3 days"` or `"-1 week"` are accepted by the parser but resolve to a single instant rather than to a span of time, so they match only a document whose timestamp is exactly that instant, which in practice means no documents at all. Spellings like `now-3days` and `"3 days ago"` are rejected outright. A timestamp carrying a time of day, such as `2005-01-01T00:00:00Z`, is not understood either: the time portion is split off and searched as ordinary text, which usually leaves the query matching nothing. To bound a search by time, use a range with whole-day bounds instead.
+    `now`, `noon`, `midnight` and relative offsets such as `"-3 days"` or `"-1 week"` are accepted by the parser but resolve to a single instant rather than to a span of time, so they match only a document whose timestamp is exactly that instant, which in practice means no documents at all. Quoting does not change this. Spellings like `now-3days` and `"3 days ago"` are rejected outright.
 
 #### Searching custom fields
 
diff --git a/src/documents/tests/search/test_documented_syntax.py b/src/documents/tests/search/test_documented_syntax.py
index 0e5340a8e..d9a4d5530 100644
--- a/src/documents/tests/search/test_documented_syntax.py
+++ b/src/documents/tests/search/test_documented_syntax.py
@@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ class TestDocumentedDateForms:
             ("added:2005-03", "old"),
             ("added:[2005-01-01 to 2005-12-31]", "old"),
             ("added:[2005 to 2009]", "old"),
+            # A full timestamp works, but only quoted when it stands alone,
+            # and only unquoted when it is a range bound. The bare standalone
+            # spelling is pinned as a non-match below.
+            ('added:"2005-03-04T15:30:00Z"', "old"),
+            ("added:[2005-03-04T09:00:00Z to 2005-03-04T17:00:00Z]", "old"),
         ],
     )
     def test_documented_date_form_matches_its_day_or_month(
@@ -291,12 +296,19 @@ class TestDocumentedDateForms:
             "added:now",
             "added:noon",
             "added:midnight",
+            # Quoting is what rescues the other multi-word date expressions,
+            # so pin that it does not rescue these: the problem is the width
+            # of the resulting range, not the way the value is delimited.
+            'added:"now"',
+            'added:"midnight"',
             'added:"-3 days"',
             'added:"-1 week"',
             # The trap: this reports no diagnostics but parses as
             # And(added:now, "3", "days") - added:now plus stray text.
             "added:now - 3 days",
-            # A time-of-day component is split off and searched as text.
+            # The bare, unquoted spelling of a full timestamp. The quoted and
+            # range-bound spellings above do work and match this fixture's
+            # document; only this one silently degrades to a non-match.
             "added:2005-03-04T15:30:00Z",
         ],
     )