# Autosuggesting dates (various forms)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175 "2016-08-16T19:00:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ramdev\_Wudali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramdev_wudali/32/7894_2.png) [@Ramdev\_Wudali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramdev_Wudali)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175/1 "2016-08-16T19:00:19Z")

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I know this is not an elasticsearch specific question, but I would like to get some input form the community on this and if ES has a way to do it as well. I would like to know if its possible to autosuggest dates for example:  
the various formats being : "Month, Year", "Year", "dd, Month, Year", etc.

Thanks

Ramdev

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175/2 "2016-08-18T06:55:35Z")

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Depends, maybe not on a mapped timestamp field as we store that as epoch.  
But maybe if you stored it as a string?

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**Author:** ![Ramdev\_Wudali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramdev_wudali/32/7894_2.png) [@Ramdev\_Wudali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramdev_Wudali)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175/3 "2016-08-18T12:15:03Z")

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wouldn't that meant that the date would then have to be stored in the various forms as String ? (and perhaps be analyzed).

Ramdev

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175/4 "2016-08-18T20:16:40Z")

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Yeah, which is a downside.

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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 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/autosuggesting-dates-various-forms/58175/5 "2017-07-05T22:26:51Z")

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