# Created and modified date

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/created-and-modified-date/110604
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/created-and-modified-date/110604 "2017-12-07T04:06:51Z")
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### Author: ![aneesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aneesh/32/37819_2.png) [@aneesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aneesh)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/created-and-modified-date/110604/1 "2017-12-07T04:06:51Z")

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Hi

I need to store created datetime and modified datetime for index.  
While getting data how I can read that?

Thanks  
Aneesh

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/created-and-modified-date/110604/2 "2017-12-07T09:23:16Z")

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This is something you need to fix in your application.  
Elasticsearch does not do that (timestamp on documents).

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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: [January 4, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/created-and-modified-date/110604/3 "2018-01-04T09:23:54Z")

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