(In general a "DateTranslatingTokenFilter" class would be a pretty cool
addition to Lucene, it could as constructor args two DateFormatters (one
for parsing the incoming tokens, and one for formating the outgoing
If this happens, it would be nice (perhaps overkill) to have a "chronic"
input filter:
http://chronic.rubyforge.org/
the java port:
https://jchronic.dev.java.net/
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brian, for a quick easy solution, if you find working with unix
timestamps easier, perhaps just want to to put in dates as a
SortableLongField and deal with the formatting that way.
