# Count on a date field **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [June 5, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-on-a-date-field/184323 "2019-06-05T10:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thomas\_D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomas_d/32/47351_2.png) [@Thomas\_D](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thomas_D)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-on-a-date-field/184323/1 "2019-06-05T10:01:12Z")
Hello, Is it possible to count the number of documents for which a type date field corresponds to a specific date? I need to know if an invoice has been paid, for that I put the date of payment on the date of default (1st of January 1970), how can I count the number of invoices that have a payment date to 1970? Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![thekm1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thekm1/32/35926_2.png) [@thekm1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thekm1)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-on-a-date-field/184323/2 "2019-06-05T10:23:02Z")
Hi @Thomas_D I have a suggestion: You could do a [date range filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.0/query-dsl-range-query.html#_date_format_in_range_queries) and take the value `hits.total.value` from the result. The api which can directly do this is called [\_count api](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-count.html) Let me know if this worked for you ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-on-a-date-field/184323/3 "2019-07-03T10:23:03Z")
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