fix progress bar start time
@@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ def _search(
# default number of tweets per response 500 when not set otherwise
if max_results == 0:
max_results = 100 # temp fix for #504
+
+ # start time defaults to the beginning of Twitter to override the
+ # default of the last month. Only do this if start_time is not already
+ # specified and since_id and until_id aren't being used
+ if start_time is None and since_id is None and until_id is None:
+ start_time = datetime.datetime(2006, 3, 21, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
else:
if max_results == 0:
max_results = 100
