# ElasticsearchClient datetime?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchclient-datetime/338899>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [July 20, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchclient-datetime/338899 "2023-07-20T16:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![McJava1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@McJava1967](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/McJava1967)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchclient-datetime/338899/1 "2023-07-20T16:05:26Z")

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Hi all. I just upgraded ElasticsearchClient to 8.8. A Builder that used to accept a String ("now-7d") now needs a DateTime object. Does anyone have a working example of DateTime usage?

This used to work:

**requestBuilder.start("now-7d");**

But now it needs this:

**private DateTime(long epochMillis, String str, DateTimeFormatter format)**

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![McJava1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@McJava1967](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/McJava1967)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchclient-datetime/338899/2 "2023-07-20T17:47:58Z")

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Duh. RTFM, Brian!

🙂

```
		requestBuilder.start(DateTime.of("now-7d"));

```

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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:** [August 17, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchclient-datetime/338899/3 "2023-08-17T17:48:24Z")

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