Re: Date can't be before 1970?

The other option that some people have used is to not use the DateField and just create your own format following the MMdd format So 20020101 for Jan 1, 2002 Note that you cannot use the Date Filter to filter dates. However you can use the built in range query (see query syntax for more de

Date can't be before 1970?

Hi, I noticed that DateField.dateToString does not allow dates before 1970. Is the limitation caused by java's Date or by the way it needs to be encoded for the index. What is the suggested solution to deal with dates prior to 1970? Thanks. -- Herman

Re: Working with a Distributed System

> How about using JMS and publish/subscribe with maybe time-stamped > messages, etc.? Since Lucene is not transactional this will eventually get out of sync, I suppose. clemens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Score calculation

Most of it is done in Similarity.java, but in order to change the formula you also have to be familiar with the methods that call methods in this class, which are in the indexing part (IndexWriter.java) as well as in the query part (the *Query and BooleanClause classes in the search package). Cle