: the field like "2009-05-01T12:45:32Z". However when I'm searching the user : don't always give an exact date. for instance they give "2008-05-01" to get
whatever date your users give you, you'll need to format it in the full ISO format in order to query on it (ie: 2008-05-01 into 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z) but once you do that, you can append date math syntax to query for a range some range arround your value yourField:[2008-05-01T00:00:00Z/DAY TO 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z/DAY+1DAY-1MILLISECOND] http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax -Hoss