diff --git a/contrib/adsabs/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/DateNormalizerTokenFilter.java b/contrib/adsabs/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/DateNormalizerTokenFilter.java
index adfa8975e..75b99bf91 100644
--- a/contrib/adsabs/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/DateNormalizerTokenFilter.java
+++ b/contrib/adsabs/src/java/org/apache/solr/analysis/DateNormalizerTokenFilter.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.util.DateMathParser;
 
 public final class DateNormalizerTokenFilter extends TokenFilter {
@@ -54,6 +55,20 @@ private CharSequence normalize(String string) {
       normalDate = false;
     }
     
+    // we allow symbolic date math logic; if parsed
+    // then the date will always be moved into the first
+    // 30 mins of the day
+    try {
+      Date date = dmp.parseMath(null, string);
+      dmp.setNow(date);
+      date = dmp.parseMath("/DAY" + this.offset);
+      return sdf.format(date);
+    } catch (SolrException e) {
+      // pass
+    } catch (ParseException e) {
+      // pass
+    }
+    
     for (SimpleDateFormat f: this.format) {
       try {
           Date date = f.parse(string);
diff --git a/contrib/adsabs/src/test/org/apache/solr/analysis/TestAdsabsTypeDateString.java b/contrib/adsabs/src/test/org/apache/solr/analysis/TestAdsabsTypeDateString.java
index 2abbbc8d6..10bed1ee5 100644
--- a/contrib/adsabs/src/test/org/apache/solr/analysis/TestAdsabsTypeDateString.java
+++ b/contrib/adsabs/src/test/org/apache/solr/analysis/TestAdsabsTypeDateString.java
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public void test() throws Exception {
     // test the query parser does the right thing
     //setDebug(true);
     
+    
     // added symbolic date math parsing
     assertQueryEquals(req("defType", "aqp", "q", "date:[\"1976-12-30T00:30:00Z\" TO \"1977-12-30T00:30:00Z\"]"),
         "date:[220753800000 TO 252289800000]",
@@ -297,6 +298,14 @@ public void test() throws Exception {
         "//*[@numFound='125']"
         );
     
+    /*
+     * symbolic date math
+     */
+    
+    assertQ(req("q", "pubdate:[NOW-60YEARS TO *] foo", "qf", "title keyword"), 
+        "//*[@numFound='1']"
+        );
+    
     }
   
 }