That padding is just fine, you're effectively indexing everything exactly at midnight.
Best, Erick On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm using "solr.DateRangeField" data type to index my dates data and based > on [1] the format of the dates data is "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ". > > In my case, I have no need to search on time, just dates. I started by > indexing my dates data as "2016-06-01" but Solr threw an exception. I then > changed my code to index the dates data as: "2016-06-01T00:00:00Z" and now > it works. > > I have tested this new format and all is well so far, however I'm not sure > if the way I have done the padding is valid. So, my question to the Solr > community is this: Is the format that I'm using correct (padding with "00") > or is there some other format I should have used that is better and more > optimal for my use case? > > Thanks in advanced. > > Steve > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Working+with+Dates