From: Erik Hatcher
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 5:08 AM, tom wa wrote:
> > I'm trying to create an index which can also be searched with date 
> > ranges. My first attempt using the Lucene date format ran in to 
> > trouble after my index grew and I couldn't search over more than a few 
> > days.
> >  the suggestion 
> > seemed to be to use strings of the format yyyyMMdd. Using that format 
> > worked great until I remembered that my search needs
> >  to be able to support different timezones. Adding the hour to my 
> > field causes the same problem above and my queries stop working when 
> > using a range of about 2 months.
> 
> When you say you couldn't search and that it stopped working, do you 
> mean it was just unacceptably slow?
>

(Sorry it's taken me a while to reply)

It wasn't slow, my timeout is far greater than the time it takes to come back with no 
hits.

A small example of a query would be (date: [200306081900 TO 200306201200]) AND (text: 
sometext) and this will return zero hits. The index contains about 1000 items for each 
24hr period and the total number of documents was about 150k. I had the same results 
when using Lucene's built in date format too. If you think it should be able to cope 
with what I am trying to do then I'll take another look.

Thanks again.

Tom.


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