If I do a search for both meta_type of "news" a date of 2000/11/16 in the goLiveDate field the results page returns "There was no data matching this Catalog query". Yet when I do a search for the meta_type of "news" alone I see that indeed the Catalog contains 2 entries with 2000/11/16 in the goLiveDate field.
Why doesn't it find any entries when I search by date?
If goLiveDate is of DateTime type and is being indexed as a field index, try using a range, for instance: <dtml-in "Catalog( { 'meta_type' : 'news', 'goLiveDate' : [ someDate , someDate + 1 ], 'goLiveDate_usage' : 'range:min:max' } )"> .... </dtml-in> .... someDate is _.DateTime('2000/11/16 00:00') or something like that. p.s. It's very hard to catch a particular moment in the time continuum, but it is easier with a time interval. :-)