Dates in LUNA
Introduction
The LUNA Viewer now (7.3+) supports date range searching. To best make use of this feature the date values must be formatted to match one of a number of patterns.
Date Patterns
Below is a list of date patterns followed by an example
Pattern | Example | Note |
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yyyy | 1837 |
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MM/dd/yyyy | 06/24/1837 |
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dd MMM yyyy | 24 Jun 1837 | You can use the full month here |
MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss | 06/24/1837 17:08:56 |
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MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa | 06/24/1837 5:08:56 PM |
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yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss | 1837-06-24 17:08:56 |
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yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss aa | 1837-06-24 5:08:56 PM |
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yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z' | 1837-06-24:17:08:56-0800 | The Z is the offset from UTC time -0800 is Pacific Standard Time |
yyyy-MM-dd't'HH:mm:ss'z' | 1837-06-24:17:08:56PST | The lowercase z is using the name like these three options:
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Other references
Data Templates & Data Schemas to define your date fields.
See Default Date Field in Creating & Editing Collection Properties to choose a single date field that will be used in the simple search box.
See Searching to understand where you can do date range searches.