title: How to sort by date in SOLR?
body: <p>I want to sort the results and scores returning from SOLR search,how I can get scores based on date like below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Suppose for keywords "football"
    12-10-2012 - 3.2
    13-10-2012 - 1.5
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My solr date filed lis like below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;field name="published_date" datetimeformat="dd-MM-yyyy"  type="date" indexed="true" stored="true"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I checked this <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters">docs</a> but couldn't find that.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>