# Kibana painless- Difference in dates in days

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-painless-difference-in-dates-in-days/169201>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-painless-difference-in-dates-in-days/169201 "2019-02-20T12:11:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-painless-difference-in-dates-in-days/169201/2 "2019-02-20T20:26:11Z")

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You could do something like the following:

```auto
return (doc['date2'].value.millis - doc['date1'].value.millis) / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24;

```

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