# How to store current date **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 23, 2015, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323 "2015-02-23T08:23:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tao\_hiko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tao_hiko/32/707_2.png) [@tao\_hiko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tao_hiko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323/1 "2015-02-23T08:23:07Z")
If I have mapping as below { "name" : { "type" : "string"}, "location" : { "type" : "string" }, "created\_date" : { "type" : "date"} } Is it possible to put current date to "created\_date" field automatically? If yes, How to do? Thanks Hiko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323/2 "2015-02-23T09:07:39Z")
You can use the \_timestamp field to generate a date. If you really need to copy the value in another field, you could use copy\_to. None will update \_source though. ## HTH David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 23 févr. 2015 à 09:23, tao hiko [taohiko@gmail.com](mailto:taohiko@gmail.com) a écrit : > > If I have mapping as below > { > "name" : { "type" : "string"}, > "location" : { "type" : "string" }, > "created\_date" : { "type" : "date"} > } > > Is it possible to put current date to "created\_date" field automatically? If yes, How to do? > > ## Thanks Hiko > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/E3532D4C-9E7C-4AF9-ACD7-40B25B7B653C%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/E3532D4C-9E7C-4AF9-ACD7-40B25B7B653C%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![tao\_hiko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tao_hiko/32/707_2.png) [@tao\_hiko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tao_hiko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323/3 "2015-02-23T09:41:52Z")
Hi David Could you please provide some example for this case? Thank you Hiko On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 4:07:52 PM UTC+7, David Pilato wrote: > You can use the \_timestamp field to generate a date. > If you really need to copy the value in another field, you could use > copy\_to. > > None will update \_source though. > > ## HTH > > David 😉 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 23 févr. 2015 à 09:23, tao hiko \<[tao...@gmail.com](mailto:tao...@gmail.com) \\> a > écrit : > > If I have mapping as below > { > "name" : { "type" : "string"}, > "location" : { "type" : "string" }, > "created\_date" : { "type" : "date"} > } > > Is it possible to put current date to "created\_date" field automatically? > If yes, How to do? > > Thanks > Hiko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323/4 "2015-02-23T16:22:42Z")
Timestamp doc [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-timestamp-field.html#mapping-timestamp-field) [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-timestamp-field.html#mapping-timestamp-field](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-timestamp-field.html#mapping-timestamp-field) Copy To doc: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#copy-to) [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#copy-to](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#copy-to) HTH. If you don’t succeed, please GIST a full example of what you did so far so we can reproduce and help. See [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) [http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) -- David Pilato | Technical Advocate | [Elasticsearch.com](http://Elasticsearch.com) @dadoonet [https://twitter.com/dadoonet](https://twitter.com/dadoonet) | @elasticsearchfr [https://twitter.com/elasticsearchfr](https://twitter.com/elasticsearchfr) | @scrutmydocs [https://twitter.com/scrutmydocs](https://twitter.com/scrutmydocs) > Le 23 févr. 2015 à 10:41, tao hiko [taohiko@gmail.com](mailto:taohiko@gmail.com) a écrit : > > Hi David > > Could you please provide some example for this case? > > Thank you > Hiko > > On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 4:07:52 PM UTC+7, David Pilato wrote: > You can use the \_timestamp field to generate a date. > If you really need to copy the value in another field, you could use copy\_to. > > None will update \_source though. > > ## HTH > > David 😉 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 23 févr. 2015 à 09:23, tao hiko \<[tao...@gmail.com](mailto:tao...@gmail.com) \\> a écrit : > > > If I have mapping as below > > { > > "name" : { "type" : "string"}, > > "location" : { "type" : "string" }, > > "created\_date" : { "type" : "date"} > > } > > > > Is it possible to put current date to "created\_date" field automatically? If yes, How to do? > > > > Thanks > > Hiko > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com) [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6a649dd3-ed25-4065-b142-e9bbc382de56%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout) [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com) [mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com) [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/89567448-94b6-4edf-8a7f-f7f361c57747%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout) [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. 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**Author:** ![tao\_hiko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tao_hiko/32/707_2.png) [@tao\_hiko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tao_hiko)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-current-date/22323/5 "2015-02-24T04:18:40Z")
I have tried like below this POST index\_test { "mapping" : { "type\_test" : { "\_timestamp" : { "enabled" : true, "copy\_to" : "created\_date" }, "properties" : { "name" : { "type" : "string"}, "location" : { "type" : "string"}, "created\_date" : { "type" : "date" } } } } } POST index\_test/type\_test/123 { "name" : "Full Test", "location" : "local" } But the result that doesn't have "created\_date" field. What did I do wrong or missing? GET index\_test/\_search The result { "took": 3, "timed\_out": false, "\_shards": { "total": 5, "successful": 5, "failed": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 1, "max\_score": 1, "hits": [ { "\_index": "index\_test", "\_type": "type\_test", "\_id": "123", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "name": "Full Test", "location": "local" } } ] } } On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 11:22:56 PM UTC+7, David Pilato wrote: > Timestamp doc > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-timestamp-field.html#mapping-timestamp-field) > > Copy To doc: > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#copy-to) > > HTH. > > If you don’t succeed, please GIST a full example of what you did so far so > we can reproduce and help. > See [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) > > -- > _David Pilato_ | _Technical Advocate_ | _[Elasticsearch.com](http://Elasticsearch.com) > [http://Elasticsearch.com](http://Elasticsearch.com)_ > @dadoonet [https://twitter.com/dadoonet](https://twitter.com/dadoonet) | @elasticsearchfr > [https://twitter.com/elasticsearchfr](https://twitter.com/elasticsearchfr) | @scrutmydocs > [https://twitter.com/scrutmydocs](https://twitter.com/scrutmydocs) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8d006d81-28a8-48ab-a571-688e8fabb5e5%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8d006d81-28a8-48ab-a571-688e8fabb5e5%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
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