Faceting Museum Collections Data with TypeSense
TLDR Theodore sought advice on faceting museum collection data. Jason suggested converting dates to a Unix timestamp with lower granularity.
Sep 05, 2023 (3 months ago)
Theodore
03:11 PMJason
03:58 PM-100000
year for eg!May be you'd have to use a lower granularity equivalent of Unix timestamp, where each integer represents a day of the year may be?
Jason
03:58 PMJason
03:59 PM1970-01-01
would be represented as 0
, but then 1970-01-02
would be 1
Jason
03:59 PM1969-12-31
would be represented as -1
, etcTypesense
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