[Xapian-discuss] Searching for Dates

[Jim Lynch]

Amias Channer wrote:

>Hello Xapianistas ,
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>I am writing an email search tool in Perl and would like users to be
>able to search for messages by date . 
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>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. 
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>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
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One method is discussed here: 
http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2007-June/003894.html

Jim