APIv2 and searching on Date fields

APIv2 and searching on Date fields

With APIv1 I could set search criteria like this:

((Notification_Date:2018-06))

And that would fetch records with a date from that particular month.

It doesn't work with APIv2. I tried both:

((Notification_Date:starts_with:2018-06))

And:

((Notification_Date:equals:2018-06))

And it yields no result. Only if I use a full date (e.g.: 2018-06-18) there's a result returned (with both equals and starts_with), but I'd like to search for records in a particular range, so the technique with "2018-06" was already a stretch.

Is it possible to search on dates with APIv2? Something like searching within date ranges would be great