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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-6302:
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The expressions support is described as a subset of javascript. So i think 
implementing it as javascript does is the only choice.

Anything else, users can add themselves in the custom functions map.

> Adding Date Math support to Lucene Expressions module
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6302
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6302
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: modules/expressions
>    Affects Versions: 4.10.3
>            Reporter: Itamar Syn-Hershko
>
> Lucene Expressions are great, but they don't allow for date math. More 
> specifically, they don't allow to infer date parts from a numeric 
> representation of a date stamp, nor they allow to parse strings 
> representations to dates.
> Some of the features requested here easy to implement via ValueSource 
> implementation (and potentially minor changes to the lexer definition) , some 
> are more involved. I'll be happy if we could get half of those in, and will 
> be happy to work on a PR for the parts we can agree on.
> The items we will be happy to have:
> - A now() function (with or without TZ support) to return a current long 
> date/time value as numeric, that we could use against indexed datetime fields 
> (which are infact numerics)
> - Parsing methods - to allow to express datetime as strings, and / or read it 
> from stored fields and parse it from there. Parse errors would render a value 
> of zero.
> - Given a numeric value, allow to specify it is a date value and then infer 
> date parts - e.g. Date(1424963520).Year == 2015, or Date(now()) - 
> Date(1424963520).Year. Basically methods which return numerics but internally 
> create and use Date objects.



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