Have a look at the DateTools utility class. Also, the Wiki has some
HOWTOs on Dates: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowTo
Search this archive for Date handling, plus I believe the Lucene In
Action book covers dates as well, although it might be a bit dated.
Lucene also comes with sort
I am using the most basic lucene functionality but using against a
database. For example, I may have a message forum and will index that
message text and message subject from the database. But I haven't
figured out a way to index the date. ideally, when I search I should
be able to return the mo
