# Date filtering from crash course part 2
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filtering-from-crash-course-part-2/288934
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filtering-from-crash-course-part-2/288934 "2021-11-10T22:22:10Z")
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### Author:  [@iamtheschmitzer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamtheschmitzer)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filtering-from-crash-course-part-2/288934/1 "2021-11-10T22:22:10Z")
In part 2 of the crash course [Part-2-Understanding-the-relevance-of-your-search-with-Elasticsearch-and-Kibana-/README.md at main · LisaHJung/Part-2-Understanding-the-relevance-of-your-search-with-Elasticsearch-and-Kibana- · GitHub](https://github.com/LisaHJung/Part-2-Understanding-the-relevance-of-your-search-with-Elasticsearch-and-Kibana-/blob/main/README.md) I see this date filter used:
```auto
GET news_headlines/_search
{
"query": {
"range": {
"date": {
"gte": "2015-06-20",
"lte": "2015-09-22"
}
}
}
}
```
Does Elasticsearch interpret these as dates? Or is it just a string, and the date filtering is truly a string filter? Or put another way, if the date field in these documents were formatted in a less-friendly way, like `4/7/2021` and `10/13/2021`, would these be correctly filterable?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filtering-from-crash-course-part-2/288934/2 "2021-11-10T23:03:51Z")
Yes it'll translate that into a time format that Elasticsearch can then query against the data.
Take a look at [format | Elasticsearch Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-date-format.html) for what formats are supported.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filtering-from-crash-course-part-2/288934/3 "2021-12-08T23:03:59Z")
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