# How can I filter dates for today?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-filter-dates-for-today/158194
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 26, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-filter-dates-for-today/158194 "2018-11-26T14:05:55Z")
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### Author: ![aleira27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@aleira27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aleira27)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-filter-dates-for-today/158194/1 "2018-11-26T14:05:56Z")

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Hi everybody, how are you?

I got this field and I am filtering by now-24h and now, but I get dates for yesterday:

 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/1/b11afae6d703694594587df48f6496c4c5e68757.png)

How can I get the dates just for today ?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-filter-dates-for-today/158194/2 "2018-11-26T21:37:34Z")

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Unfortunately it's not as easy as it could be. Right now I think the best way is to enter the dates as `yyyy-mm-dd` without the time, which will give you midnight for each day.

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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: [December 24, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-filter-dates-for-today/158194/3 "2018-12-24T21:37:39Z")

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