diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/assistant.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/assistant.cc
index b9fa3bb6fe0..58a81d544c7 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/assistant.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/assistant.cc
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ response(const char* dump, size_t dump_len,
 	 const char* title, size_t title_len,
 	 const char* keywords, size_t keywords_len,
 	 const char* author, size_t author_len,
-	 int pages)
+	 int pages,
+	 time_t created)
 {
     if (replied) {
 	// Logic error - handler already called response() for this file.
@@ -82,12 +83,14 @@ response(const char* dump, size_t dump_len,
     }
     replied = true;
     unsigned u_pages = pages + 1;
+    unsigned long u_created = static_cast<unsigned long>(created);
     if (!write_string(sockt, nullptr, 0) ||
 	!write_string(sockt, dump, dump_len) ||
 	!write_string(sockt, title, title_len) ||
 	!write_string(sockt, keywords, keywords_len) ||
 	!write_string(sockt, author, author_len) ||
-	!write_unsigned(sockt, u_pages)) {
+	!write_unsigned(sockt, u_pages) ||
+	!write_unsigned(sockt, u_created)) {
 	exit(1);
     }
 }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler.h b/xapian-applications/omega/handler.h
index e5d037e3b37..b44a9c53028 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler.h
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler.h
@@ -53,20 +53,23 @@ response(const char* dump, size_t dump_len,
 	 const char* title, size_t title_len,
 	 const char* keywords, size_t keywords_len,
 	 const char* author, size_t author_len,
-	 int pages);
+	 int pages,
+	 time_t created);
 
 inline void
 response(const char* dump,
 	 const char* title,
 	 const char* keywords,
 	 const char* author,
-	 int pages)
+	 int pages,
+	 time_t created)
 {
     response(dump, dump ? std::strlen(dump) : 0,
 	     title, title ? std::strlen(title) : 0,
 	     keywords, keywords ? std::strlen(keywords) : 0,
 	     author, author ? std::strlen(author) : 0,
-	     pages);
+	     pages,
+	     created);
 }
 
 inline void
@@ -74,13 +77,15 @@ response(const std::string& dump,
 	 const std::string& title,
 	 const std::string& keywords,
 	 const std::string& author,
-	 int pages)
+	 int pages,
+	 time_t created)
 {
     response(dump.data(), dump.size(),
 	     title.data(), title.size(),
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author.data(), author.size(),
-	     pages);
+	     pages,
+	     created);
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_gmime.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_gmime.cc
index 4d48afff91b..01d12a53417 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_gmime.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_gmime.cc
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ extract(const string& filename,
 		 title, strlen(title),
 		 nullptr, 0,
 		 author, strlen(author),
-		 -1);
+		 -1,
+		 time_t(-1));
 
 #if GMIME_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
 	free(author);
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libabw.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libabw.cc
index f0db2a1b7b1..b9ca2d96f9a 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libabw.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libabw.cc
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ try {
 	     title, title_len,
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author, author_len,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 } catch (...) {
     fail("Libabw threw an exception");
 }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libarchive.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libarchive.cc
index 3fee85e47fb..f7b59e80607 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libarchive.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libarchive.cc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ extract_opendoc(struct archive* archive_obj)
     // in either order in the ZIP container.
     parser.parse(styles);
 
-    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1);
+    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1, time_t(-1));
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ extract_xlsx(struct archive* archive_obj)
 	}
     }
     parser.parse(sheets);
-    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1);
+    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1, time_t(-1));
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ extract_msxml(struct archive* archive_obj,
 
     MSXmlParser parser;
     parser.parse(content);
-    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1);
+    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1, time_t(-1));
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ extract_xps(struct archive* archive_obj)
 	}
     }
 
-    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1);
+    response(parser.dump, title, keywords, author, -1, time_t(-1));
     return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libcdr.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libcdr.cc
index 4876b212aa6..d21af737536 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libcdr.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libcdr.cc
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ try {
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
-	     pages);
+	     pages,
+	     time_t(-1));
 } catch (...) {
     fail("Libcdr threw an exception");
 }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libebook.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libebook.cc
index 198505faf0a..2f969128b49 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libebook.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libebook.cc
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ try {
 	     title, title_len,
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author, author_len,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 } catch (...) {
     fail("Libe-book threw an exception");
 }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libetonyek.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libetonyek.cc
index 6f49de3cecc..7ba5cfe9e9a 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libetonyek.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libetonyek.cc
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ extract_key(RVNGInputStream* input)
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -174,7 +175,8 @@ extract_numbers(RVNGInputStream* input)
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -209,7 +211,8 @@ extract_pages(RVNGInputStream* input)
 	     title, title_len,
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author, author_len,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libextractor.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libextractor.cc
index fd120e61a51..2ebfa39f3bb 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libextractor.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libextractor.cc
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ try {
     EXTRACTOR_extract(plugins, filename.c_str(),
 		      NULL, 0,
 		      &process_metadata, &md);
-    response(md.dump, md.title, md.keywords, md.author, md.pages);
+    response(md.dump, md.title, md.keywords, md.author, md.pages, time_t(-1));
 } catch (...) {
     fail("Libextractor threw an exception");
 }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libmwaw.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libmwaw.cc
index 908eeaa45ef..df73d61d34d 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libmwaw.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_libmwaw.cc
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ extract_word(RVNGFileStream* input)
 	     title, title_len,
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author, author_len,
-	     -1);
+	     -1,
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -210,7 +211,8 @@ extract_spreadsheet(RVNGFileStream* input)
 	     title, title_len,
 	     keywords.data(), keywords.size(),
 	     author, author_len,
-	     pages_content.size());
+	     pages_content.size(),
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -229,7 +231,8 @@ extract_presentation(RVNGFileStream* input)
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
-	     pages_content.size());
+	     pages_content.size(),
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 static void
@@ -248,7 +251,8 @@ extract_drawing(RVNGFileStream* input)
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
 	     nullptr, 0,
-	     pages_content.size());
+	     pages_content.size(),
+	     time_t(-1));
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_poppler.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_poppler.cc
index 1151aa11fc3..894f5be7537 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_poppler.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_poppler.cc
@@ -98,16 +98,14 @@ extract(const string& filename,
 	gchar* author = poppler_document_get_author(doc);
 	gchar* title = poppler_document_get_title(doc);
 	gchar* keywords = poppler_document_get_keywords(doc);
-	time_t datetime = poppler_document_get_creation_date(doc);
-	if (datetime != time_t(-1)) {
-	    // FIXME: Add support for this to the worker protocol.
-	}
+	time_t created = poppler_document_get_creation_date(doc);
 
 	response(dump.data(), dump.size(),
 		 title, strlen_if_nonnull(title),
 		 nullptr, 0,
 		 author, strlen_if_nonnull(author),
-		 pages);
+		 pages,
+		 created);
 	g_free(author);
 	g_free(title);
 	g_free(keywords);
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_tesseract.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_tesseract.cc
index dd6a89f222d..4a39ba137a6 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/handler_tesseract.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/handler_tesseract.cc
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ extract(const string& filename,
 
     // Get OCR result
     const char* dump = ocr->GetUTF8Text();
-    response(dump, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, -1);
+    response(dump, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, -1, time_t(-1));
     delete[] dump;
 
     // Release memory.
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/index_file.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/index_file.cc
index 5d15e9683da..78859ad5549 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/index_file.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/index_file.cc
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ index_mimetype(const string& file, const string& urlterm, const string& url,
 	    // Use a worker process to extract the content.
 	    Worker* wrk = cmd_it->second.worker;
 	    int r = wrk->extract(file, mimetype, dump, title, keywords, author,
-				 pages);
+				 pages, created);
 	    if (r != 0) {
 		string msg = wrk->get_error();
 		assert(!msg.empty());
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/worker.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/worker.cc
index 6015d1fdfa2..cd334c37737 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/worker.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/worker.cc
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ Worker::extract(const std::string& filename,
 		std::string& title,
 		std::string& keywords,
 		std::string& author,
-		int& pages)
+		int& pages,
+		time_t& created)
 {
     if (filter_module.empty()) {
 	error = "This helper hard failed earlier in the current run";
@@ -176,12 +177,15 @@ Worker::extract(const std::string& filename,
 	}
 
 	unsigned u_pages;
+	unsigned long u_created;
 	if (read_string(sockt, dump) &&
 	    read_string(sockt, title) &&
 	    read_string(sockt, keywords) &&
 	    read_string(sockt, author) &&
-	    read_unsigned(sockt, u_pages)) {
+	    read_unsigned(sockt, u_pages) &&
+	    read_unsigned(sockt, u_created)) {
 	    pages = int(u_pages) - 1;
+	    created = time_t(long(u_created));
 	    return 0;
 	}
     }
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/worker.h b/xapian-applications/omega/worker.h
index 0398804c71d..e8e2b0dd39a 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/worker.h
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/worker.h
@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ class Worker {
      *
      *  @param filename		Path to the file.
      *  @param mimetype		Mimetype of the file.
-     *  @param dump		String where the dump will be saved.
-     *  @param title		String which will hold the title of the file.
-     *  @param keywords		String where the keywords will be stored.
-     *  @param author		String where the author will be stored.
-     *  @param pages		Here the number of pages will be stored.
+     *  @param[out] dump	Any body text.
+     *  @param[out] title	The title of the document.
+     *  @param[out] keyword	Any keywords.
+     *  @param[out] author	The author(s).
+     *  @param[out] pages	The number of pages (-1 if unknown).
+     *  @param[out] created	Created timestamp as time_t (-1 if unknown).
      *
      *  @return 0 on success.
      *
@@ -104,7 +105,8 @@ class Worker {
 		std::string& title,
 		std::string& keywords,
 		std::string& author,
-		int& pages);
+		int& pages,
+		time_t& created);
 
     /** Returns an error message if the extraction fails, or an empty string
      *  if everything is okay.
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.cc b/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.cc
index 937e39b2bca..3004adb61f8 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.cc
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.cc
@@ -111,6 +111,29 @@ read_unsigned(FILE* f, unsigned& v)
     return true;
 }
 
+bool
+read_unsigned(FILE* f, unsigned long& v)
+{
+    v = 0;
+    int ch;
+    do {
+	ch = getc(f);
+	if (ch < 0) return false;
+	v = (v << 7) | (ch & 0x7f);
+    } while (ch & 0x80);
+    return true;
+}
+
+bool
+write_unsigned(FILE* f, unsigned long v)
+{
+    while (v >= 0x80) {
+	if (putc(v | 0x80, f) < 0) return false;
+	v >>= 7;
+    }
+    return !(putc(v, f) < 0);
+}
+
 bool
 write_unsigned(FILE* f, unsigned v)
 {
diff --git a/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.h b/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.h
index 50bd14cef67..21de8ff8062 100644
--- a/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.h
+++ b/xapian-applications/omega/worker_comms.h
@@ -35,4 +35,8 @@ inline bool write_string(std::FILE* f, const std::string& s) {
 
 bool read_unsigned(std::FILE* f, unsigned& v);
 
+bool read_unsigned(std::FILE* f, unsigned long& v);
+
 bool write_unsigned(std::FILE* f, unsigned v);
+
+bool write_unsigned(std::FILE* f, unsigned long v);