# Advanced date query in Elasticsearch using Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-date-query-in-elasticsearch-using-kibana/24764>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-date-query-in-elasticsearch-using-kibana/24764 "2015-07-02T05:19:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jatinpreet\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@Jatinpreet\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jatinpreet_Singh)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-date-query-in-elasticsearch-using-kibana/24764/1 "2015-07-02T05:19:31Z")

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Hi,

I am using Kibana to vizualize data stored in my Elasticsearch cluster. I want to know if it is possible to query for a particular day of the week on a date type field.

For example, I want to fetch all records that came in on Saturdays for last one year. Is this possible?

Thanks,  
Jatin

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-date-query-in-elasticsearch-using-kibana/24764/2 "2015-07-02T21:44:13Z")

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[Kibana scripted fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-fields.html) might be of help here, but the current default scripting language based on [Lucene expressions](http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_9_0/expressions/index.html?org/apache/lucene/expressions/js/package-summary.html) currently does not support date math. You could consider using static Groovy scripts instead, as described [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-groovy-script-from-kibana/2542), but it's really convoluted (note that using dynamic Groovy scripts is not secure).

As a result, at this time, I'd recommend simply indexing day-of-week as a separate field in Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-date-query-in-elasticsearch-using-kibana/24764/3 "2017-07-06T14:17:12Z")

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