# Dynamic date field in kibana dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-date-field-in-kibana-dashboard/58641
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 23, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-date-field-in-kibana-dashboard/58641 "2016-08-23T04:09:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@bharath\_meka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bharath_meka)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-date-field-in-kibana-dashboard/58641/1 "2016-08-23T04:09:35Z")
Hi,
Is there a way to get current date in Kibana (3.x) so as to use it in a query.
For eg: In the kibana dashboard, I would like to use a query something like,
"query":
"type : message : **[$CURRENT\_DATE]** - Initialized database browser\*"
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### Author:  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-date-field-in-kibana-dashboard/58641/2 "2016-08-23T19:25:32Z")
You can use a date range on a date field, but I don't think there is any way to do this by replacing a variable in a string. You'd probably have to use a scripted dashboard and calculate the right date that way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-date-field-in-kibana-dashboard/58641/3 "2017-07-06T13:40:30Z")