Yeah, leaving it as UTC was fine. My date vernacular was off in my
original question, sorry.
Actually I was able to solve the problem a different way. I'm
generating a SIMILE Timeline XML output from Solr, and it has a date-
time-format option. Setting that to "iso8601" was all it took,
leaving the Solr date output as-is. Substring extraction would have
done the trick just fine though.
I'll be contributing these bits back to contrib/velocity or as part of
SolrJS when I get things running nicely.
Erik
On Nov 14, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
: for pragmatic "the desired output is straightforward XML"
reasons. I need to
: take a Solr date value in "2008-10-30T03:28:10.000Z" format and
output it as a
: GMT formatted date like "Oct 30 2008 03:28:10 GMT-0600".
:
: Anyone got the incantation handy to make such a conversion in XSLT?
I can't think of anyway to do that since, 03:28:10.000Z is not
equivilent
to 03:28:10 GMT-0600 ... GMT-0600 is a very differnet timezone then
UTC.
assuming you mean that you want a way to go from a UTC date in the
canonical format to an alternate format in a specified timezone,
then i
think you need to use some of the XSL dateTime functions i've seen
documented here and there -- but i'm pretty sure they require XSL 2.0
(which probably means loading a new XSL library into solr)...
http://www.w3schools.com/Xpath/xpath_functions.asp#datetime
If you're okay leaving things in UTC, i've seen a lot of people use
substring to extract/reformat the constituent parts.
-Hoss
