Search date range using Lucene in Java?

Can I search for a date range using Lucene in Java? How to build Lucene search query based on date field and date range? For example:

>Between specified dates > before specified date > after specified date > within the last 24 hours > within the past week > within the past month

[Edit] I use Lucene 2.4 1. My system is really a legacy. It's really poor testing, so I don't think it's necessary to upgrade if possible

Solution

Lucene (before version 2.9) only stores string value, and it only supports dictionary range query of this data Therefore, if you want to store date / time data and execute a range query on it, you need to explicitly format the data / time values so that they are arranged in literal order

For example, store your date / time as 2009-10-29t15:34:00, and then query the range, such as [2009-10-29t15:00:00 to 2009-10-29t16:00:00]

As has been pointed out elsewhere, Lucene 2.9 has finally introduced support for range queries for non string data, making all this easier