DateQuery with comparison operators

[Umashanker, Srividhya]

HI -

I are using Lucene 4.5  and want to support date comparisons  with < > <= >= !=.
Right now, we parse the string and create RangeQuery. Is there an inbuilt way 
to do date based comparisons ie., "dob <= 2013-10-23T14:47:54.776Z"

-Vidhya