# Painless script issue in date comparision

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-issue-in-date-comparision/243927>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-issue-in-date-comparision/243927 "2020-08-05T20:08:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gauti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@Gauti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gauti)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-issue-in-date-comparision/243927/1 "2020-08-05T20:08:39Z")

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I have written a painless script to get the time difference between two date fields, but i'm not getting the correct answer.

```
default_date : 01-01-1970 00:00:00
result.taskslatable_duration.value : 01-01-1970 00:40:00

```

by calculating this i need to get time difference as 40 but i'm getting difference as 18479.

**My script**

```
def FirstDate = doc['default_date'].value.getMillis();
def SecondDate;
if (doc['result.taskslatable_duration.value'].size() == 0){
SecondDate = new Date().getTime();
} else {
SecondDate = doc['result.taskslatable_duration.value'].value.getMillis();
}
return (SecondDate-FirstDate) / (1000*60*60*24)

```

Not sure what wrong i'm doing here, any advice please.

Thanks  
Gautham

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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:** [September 2, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-issue-in-date-comparision/243927/2 "2020-09-02T20:08:41Z")

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