Dates in views

[Meikel Brandmeyer]

Hi,

what is the usual approach to emit keys containing dates? Should I convert things to a UTC string? Or can I simply emit a java.util.Date or org.joda.time.DateTime?

Sincerely
Meikel

[Chas Emerick]

IIRC, any value supplied as document id will be stringified, so you almost certainly don't want j.u.Date; I don't know what joda's DateTime does.

FWIW, I use ISO 8601 for all dates. I know the world doesn't need more date-handling code, but here's what I use (good enough for my purposes; at the very least, you might find the ISO 8601 date format string helpful):

https://gist.github.com/742432

- Chas