: You will have to URL encode the string correctly and supply date in format
: Solr expects. Please check this: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax
beyond that, you may also need to worry about lucene query sytnax escaping
...the query parser can see the ":" character and think you are searching
for "mm:ss" in the field "yyyy-mm-ddThh"
this isn't something people typically need to worry about when range
searching on dates (becuase query parser doesn't treat ":" as special in a
range query) but if you are are looking for exact date matches you'll
probably want to quote the date value...
date_field:"2009-01-09T00:00:00Z"
-Hoss
