Index: CHANGES.txt
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--- CHANGES.txt	(revision 965112)
+++ CHANGES.txt	(working copy)
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@
   and float were not affected.
   (Yonik Seeley, Uwe Schindler)
 
+* LUCENE-2549: Fix TimeLimitingCollector#TimeExceededException to record
+  the absolute docid.  (Uwe Schindler)
+  
 New features
 
 * LUCENE-2128: Parallelized fetching document frequencies during weight
Index: src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TimeLimitingCollector.java
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--- src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TimeLimitingCollector.java	(revision 965112)
+++ src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TimeLimitingCollector.java	(working copy)
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
     public long getTimeElapsed() {
       return timeElapsed;
     }
-    /** Returns last doc that was collected when the search time exceeded. */
+    /** Returns last doc (absolute doc id) that was collected when the search time exceeded. */
     public int getLastDocCollected() {
       return lastDocCollected;
     }
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@
   private final long t0;
   private final long timeout;
   private final Collector collector;
+  
+  private int docBase;
 
   /**
    * Create a TimeLimitedCollector wrapper over another {@link Collector} with a specified timeout.
@@ -200,19 +202,20 @@
     long time = TIMER_THREAD.getMilliseconds();
     if (timeout < time) {
       if (greedy) {
-        //System.out.println(this+"  greedy: before failing, collecting doc: "+doc+"  "+(time-t0));
+        //System.out.println(this+"  greedy: before failing, collecting doc: "+(docBase + doc)+"  "+(time-t0));
         collector.collect(doc);
       }
-      //System.out.println(this+"  failing on:  "+doc+"  "+(time-t0));
-      throw new TimeExceededException( timeout-t0, time-t0, doc );
+      //System.out.println(this+"  failing on:  "+(docBase + doc)+"  "+(time-t0));
+      throw new TimeExceededException( timeout-t0, time-t0, docBase + doc );
     }
-    //System.out.println(this+"  collecting: "+doc+"  "+(time-t0));
+    //System.out.println(this+"  collecting: "+(docBase + doc)+"  "+(time-t0));
     collector.collect(doc);
   }
   
   @Override
   public void setNextReader(IndexReader reader, int base) throws IOException {
     collector.setNextReader(reader, base);
+    this.docBase = base;
   }
   
   @Override