Solr and DateTimes - bug?

[Nicklas Overgaard]

Hi everybody,

I just started playing around with solr, however i'm facing some 
trouble. The test data i'm indexing with solr is, amongst other things, 
containing date and times.

By the way, I'm using mono and i'm talking to solr through the SolrNet 
library.

The issue i'm facing:

Some of the dates corresponds to the DateTime.MinValue of .net, which is 
"0001-01-01 00:00:00". When this date is returned from Solr, it's 
returned like "1-01-01T00:00:00Z". Now, I figured out that solr 
supposedly should return dates according to the ISO 8601 standard - but 
the above output is not in that format.

This basically leads to mono breaking down because it's not able to 
parse the above date. If i add three leading zeroes, it parses just fine 
(so it becomes "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", the correct ISO 8601 format).

So my question is: Is this a bug in the solr output engine, or should 
mono be able to parse the date as given from solr? I have not yet tried 
it out on .net as I do not have access to a windows machine at the moment.

Best regards,

Nicklas