Hello, I am just getting started with Solr and have a question about date/time indexing. I know from the javadoc documentation ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/schema/DateField.html ) that the format should be a restricted form of http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime-canonical-representation where the timezone is always Z.
The data I am working with is such that an exact date and time are not always known. For example, a record in my database could contain a value like 1918-00-00T00:00:00Z to indicate that the year is 1918 but the exact month and day (let alone the time) are unknown. I searched the list archives and found a thread ( http://marc.info/?l=solr-user&m=125438370510775&w=2 ) from a couple of years ago that is basically the same situation as mine. I was just wondering if there had been any updates since then that would allow date/time segments with unknown values to be represented, or if I need to do some kind of kludge to make this work. Thanks! Mari
