BCE dates have historically been problematic because of ambiguity in both the ISO format that we use for representing dates as well as the internal java representation, more details...
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1899 ..the best work around I can suggest is to use simple numeric fields to represent your dates -- either as millis since whatever epoch you want, or as distinct year, month, day fields. : Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:53:50 -0400 : From: jude mwenda <judemwe...@gmail.com> : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: BCE dates on solr TrieDateField : : Hey, : : I hope this email finds you well. I have a solr.TrieDateField and I am : trying to send -ve dates to this field. Does the TrieDateField allow for : -ve dates? when I push the date -1600-01-10 to solr i get 1600-01-10 as the : date registered. Please advise. : : -- : Regards, : : Jude Mwenda : -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
