diff --git a/shared/src/main/java/com/inteligr8/alfresco/asie/service/SolrShardHashService.java b/shared/src/main/java/com/inteligr8/alfresco/asie/service/SolrShardHashService.java
index a423257..972ba76 100644
--- a/shared/src/main/java/com/inteligr8/alfresco/asie/service/SolrShardHashService.java
+++ b/shared/src/main/java/com/inteligr8/alfresco/asie/service/SolrShardHashService.java
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package com.inteligr8.alfresco.asie.service;
 
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.temporal.TemporalAccessor;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 
 import org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException;
@@ -9,6 +12,7 @@ import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeService;
 import org.alfresco.service.namespace.NamespaceService;
 import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.MurmurHash3;
+import org.joda.time.ReadablePartial;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -70,7 +74,20 @@ public class SolrShardHashService {
 				}
 				
 				this.logger.trace("Discovered node property for sharding: {} => {}", nodeRef, fullPropertyValue);
-				String hashableValue = fullPropertyValue.toString();
+
+				String hashableValue = null;
+				if (fullPropertyValue instanceof TemporalAccessor) {
+					Instant instant = Instant.from((TemporalAccessor) fullPropertyValue);
+					hashableValue = instant.toString();
+				} else if (fullPropertyValue instanceof ReadablePartial) {
+					hashableValue = ((ReadablePartial) fullPropertyValue).toString();
+				} else if (fullPropertyValue instanceof Date) {
+					Instant instant = ((Date) fullPropertyValue).toInstant();
+					hashableValue = instant.toString();
+				} else {
+					hashableValue = fullPropertyValue.toString();
+				}
+				
 				if (shardset.getRegex() != null) {
 					Matcher matcher = shardset.getRegex().matcher(hashableValue);
 					if (!matcher.find()) {
@@ -84,6 +101,7 @@ public class SolrShardHashService {
 				int shardHash = this.hash(hashableValue, shardset.getShards().intValue());
 				this.logger.debug("Hash shardable value to shard instance ID: {}: {} => {}", nodeRef, hashableValue, shardHash);
 				return shardHash;
+			// TODO replicate hash algorithm for other shard methods 
 			default:
 				this.logger.trace("Unable to determine shard instance ID due to shard method: {}", shardset.getMethod());
 				return -1;