Tricia, I think you might have missed the key nugget at the bottom of http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/DateRangeQueries
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tricia Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:12:11 PM > Subject: Dates in Solr > > Hi All, > > I'm curious about what people have done with dates. > > We Require: > > 1. multiple granularities to query and facet on: by year, by > year/month, by year/month/day > 2. sortability: sort/order by date > 3. time typically isn't important to us > 4. some of these items don't have a day or month associated with them > 5. possibly consider seasonal like publications with "FALL" as a date > > This is the bulk of what I found documented in the mailing list and wiki: > > * http://www.nabble.com/dates---times-td10417533.html#a10421952 > * http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LargeScaleDateRangeProcessing > * > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#head-068dc96b0dac1cfc7264fe85528d7df5bf391acd > > > > o > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/util/DateMathParser.html > > o > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/schema/DateField.html > > * any queries on those fields (typically range queries) should use > either the Complete ISO 8601 Date syntax that field supports, or > the DateMath? > Syntax > to get relative dates > > This is great and valuable. I would like to be able to use the existing > functionality but I'm not sure how I can use the DateField to specify a year > without a time (what I guess would actually be a range of time) for a > document. > Any ideas? > > Tricia
