Since lucene works only with strings, you can simply write your own string representation of the date (simple yyyymmdd would work just fine)
HTH Aviran http://www.aviransplace.com -----Original Message----- From: Renaud Richardet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:54 AM To: Lucene Users List Subject: indexing documents from 1857 Hello, >From our understanding, Lucene uses the Unix Epoch (Jan 1, 1970) and there are conflicts with dates that pass this line. For one of our projects, we will need to be able to move past Jan 1, 1970 date as far as 1857. Is there any workaround this? Thanks, Renaud -- Renaud Richardet COO America Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya office +1 857 776-3195 mobile +1 617 230 9112 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wyona.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]