Elasticsearch - Sort of Date fields using epoch_millis

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1

Hi all,
I have stored date fields in Epoch_millis format but as a string
eg. {
"date" : "1543257000000"
}

Will this affect my sort query?
"sort" : [
{ "Date" : {"order" : "desc"}}

]
2

it depends if you have dates with different length (like around 1970) and negative dates, as ascii sorting would be a bit different than time based sorting in that case.

Have you considered using the reindex API to fix this (along with your ingestion pipeline)?

--Alex

3

Thanks for your time and answer.
But won't elasticsearch coerce it by default? Coerce functionality is applied by default and this should work fine while sorting.