[2006-07-15 14:06] WHIRLYCOTT said:
| I need to have my search result relevance influenced by time.  Older  
| things in my index are less relevant than newer things.  I don't want  
| to do a strict sort by date.  Is this supported somehow by using a  
| dismax request handler?  Or if you have other hints, I'm eager to  
| know what they are.

  I've recently used solr's FunctionQuery to do just this with great 
success.  Take a look at FunctionQuery and ReciprocalFloatFunction.
If I have some time later today, I'll put together a simple example.

cheers!
  Brent