# Extract the year from a date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-the-year-from-a-date/95142>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 31, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-the-year-from-a-date/95142 "2017-07-31T08:30:50Z")\
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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:** [July 31, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/extract-the-year-from-a-date/95142/5 "2017-07-31T10:25:33Z")

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Please read be patient section at

> [@About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21):
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May be your question is more for Kibana? So may be move it to #kibana instead?  
I believe you can do something similar with time series visual builder.

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