[Xapian-discuss] Searching for Dates

[Amias Channer]

Hello Xapianistas ,
        
I am writing an email search tool in Perl and would like users to be
able to search for messages by date . 
        
I decided that i when indexing i would catch dates and convert them to
seconds since epoch(SSE) and give them a prefix and weight. By then
interpreting the incoming queries in to SSE I hope to use the range
operator to allow for date ranges. 
        
Before i then start dealing with the clusterf**k that is date
manipulation it occured to me that this must be quite a common
thing to do.  I couldn't find it in mentioned in the docs , or 
on the list so i thought i'd see how you lot have done it .
        
Have i missed something built-in that does this ?
Has anyone done this before ? how did it go ? 
Is SSE the right way to go for dates in Xapian ?
        
Any comments or assistance on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
        
Toodle-pip
Amias