# How to get current date in script

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-current-date-in-script/19794>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-current-date-in-script/19794 "2014-09-15T16:11:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_gupta/32/512_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-current-date-in-script/19794/1 "2014-09-15T16:11:44Z")

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Hi,

I want to write a script to calculate the number of days from current date  
on a date field. I can use a script like:  
"script\_fields": {  
"test": {  
"script": "doc['date'].date.year \* doc['date'].date.dayOfYear - "  
}  
}

How to get the current date? No date related function is mentioned in the  
help(  
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-scripting.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-scripting.html)  
).

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**Author:** ![vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vineeth_mohan_2/32/747_2.png) [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-current-date-in-script/19794/2 "2014-09-15T16:23:42Z")

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Hello Abhishek ,

Something similar to this should work -

{  
"script\_fields": {  
"test": {  
"script": "doc['date'].value - new Date().getTime() \* 1000"  
}  
}  
}

Thanks  
Vineeth

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Abhishek Gupta [abhi.bansal21@gmail.com](mailto:abhi.bansal21@gmail.com)  
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to write a script to calculate the number of days from current date  
> on a date field. I can use a script like:  
> "script\_fields": {  
> "test": {  
> "script": "doc['date'].date.year \* doc['date'].date.dayOfYear - "  
> }  
> }
> 
> How to get the current date? No date related function is mentioned in the  
> help(  
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-scripting.html)  
> ).
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