# Histogram confusion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/histogram-confusion/3054>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 30, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/histogram-confusion/3054 "2010-06-30T04:40:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/histogram-confusion/3054/1 "2010-06-30T04:40:48Z")

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Hi there.

I'm sure this one is me just not getting it, but since this is only in master, I don't have much documentation to go on.

I've been working on putting together some stuff using histogram facets, and I've been trying to do some stuff based on what I could garner from the github issues.

This is what I've been trying:

curl localhost:9200/chatter/content/\_search -d '{  
query : {  
"match\_all" : {}  
},  
facets : {  
"histo1" : {  
"histogram" : {  
"key\_field" : "published",  
"time\_interval" : "1d"  
}  
}  
}  
}'

Now the error I get for that is this: Failed to parse [1d]]; nested: NumberFormatException[For input string: "1d"].

I'm guessing I'm going about this the wrong way, so any assistance would be most appreciated.

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/histogram-confusion/3054/2 "2010-06-30T10:01:44Z")

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All looks good, except for the fact that time values can parse things only  
up to hours (and even that, with capital `H` and not lowercase ones which is  
nicer). I just pushed a fix, you can do "1d", or "24h".

-shay.banon

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Andrew Harvey  
[Andrew.Harvey@lexer.com.au](mailto:Andrew.Harvey@lexer.com.au)wrote:

> Hi there.
> 
> I'm sure this one is me just not getting it, but since this is only in  
> master, I don't have much documentation to go on.
> 
> I've been working on putting together some stuff using histogram facets,  
> and I've been trying to do some stuff based on what I could garner from the  
> github issues.
> 
> This is what I've been trying:
> 
> curl localhost:9200/chatter/content/\_search -d '{  
> query : {  
> "match\_all" : {}  
> },  
> facets : {  
> "histo1" : {  
> "histogram" : {  
> "key\_field" : "published",  
> "time\_interval" : "1d"  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }'
> 
> Now the error I get for that is this: Failed to parse [1d]]; nested:  
> NumberFormatException[For input string: "1d"].
> 
> I'm guessing I'm going about this the wrong way, so any assistance would be  
> most appreciated.
> 
> ## Thanks, Andrew Andrew Harvey / Developer lexer m/ t/ +61 2 9019 6379 w/ [http://lexer.com.au](http://lexer.com.au) Help put an end to whaling. Visit [http://www.givewhalesavoice.com.au/](http://www.givewhalesavoice.com.au/)
> 
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/histogram-confusion/3054/3 "2017-07-06T04:22:53Z")

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