This is part of the reason I keep poking the list for better number support (and still haven't heard a "peep" as Phil would say about them, so I am guessing that one or the other or both of
A: It would take to much redesign to make lucene handle numbers better B: No one else has a need for indexing numbers and doing a search of all docs with X field <300 and > 10) I do what Phil used to do now, so I can tell you that we ended up trashing this patch, and doing the dates in the following fashion: We just made them a "normal" field, but put them in the format of YYYYMMDD (make sure you pad with 0's if necessary - i.e. 19540203) for February third, 1954. This way, they sort alphabetically, so we could write our own date filter to do a proper range query. The built in date filter is really useless for historical information. ***************************** Daniel C. Armbrust Medical Informatics Research Information Services Mayo Clinic Rochester Harwick 8-36 (507) 538-1549 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************** -----Original Message----- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 3:54 PM To: Lucene Developers List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dates before 1970 Hello, Ok, I found Philip's patch here: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED] he.org&msgId=116180 Am I missing something or is this patch specific to Philip's application? I'm referring to the DATE_OFFSET value of 200 years. Is there any way of making it more generic? For instance, I'm dealing with dates whose values I do not know ahead of time. Some dates that I see are 09-Jun-102 or 25-Oct-100. These are dates returned by various broken web servers out there. These particular dates should obviously be 09-Jun-2002 and 25-Oct-2000. What can we do in DateField to allow indexing of dates before 1970? Does anyone have any suggestions? Otis --- Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > It looks like DateField.timeToString method won't allow negative > dates > (i.e. dates before 1.1.1970). > If one tries to index a pre-1970 date the following happens: > > java.lang.RuntimeException: time too early > at org.apache.lucene.document.DateField.timeToString(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.lucene.document.DateField.dateToString(Unknown Source) > > I am not the first one to encounter this error. Philip Ogren hit > this > problem a long time ago: > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED] e.org&msgId=114911 > > Does anyone have a workaround? > In the above message Philip Ogren mentions only a documentation > change, > but I think he also submitted a patch, which I now cannot locate. > > Does anyone have this patch? > > Thanks, > Otis > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
