# How to sum the duration dates given in HH:mm:ss?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sum-the-duration-dates-given-in-hh-mm-ss/39826
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 21, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sum-the-duration-dates-given-in-hh-mm-ss/39826 "2016-01-21T22:48:16Z")
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### Author: ![nnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nnet/32/25982_2.png) [@nnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nnet)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sum-the-duration-dates-given-in-hh-mm-ss/39826/1 "2016-01-21T22:48:17Z")

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Hi folks, I have a field of type date, format HH:mm:ss.SSS. This field contains durations of fax calls. I want to get a sum of durations, is this possible?

Thanks

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### Author: ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sum-the-duration-dates-given-in-hh-mm-ss/39826/2 "2016-01-22T17:50:12Z")

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If you are storing the duration as a value, then it's pretty easy. Just create a visualization using a sum metric on that field.

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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: [July 6, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sum-the-duration-dates-given-in-hh-mm-ss/39826/3 "2017-07-06T14:04:26Z")

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