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If we wanted to search for all landing reports with a date of landing between 01/10/2010 and 01/20/2010, we would run something similar to:
DatatypeFactory datatypeFactory = DatatypeFactory.newInstance();
SimpleDateFormat slashFmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date calendarStartDate = slashFmt.parse("01/10/2010")
Calendar startDate = new GregorianCalendar();
startDate.setTimeInMillis(calendarStartDate.getTime());
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