# Painless Script with date: hour\_minute\_second

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-with-date-hour-minute-second/109974>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-with-date-hour-minute-second/109974 "2017-12-01T18:51:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fpillo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/91b2a8/32.png) [@fpillo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fpillo)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-with-date-hour-minute-second/109974/1 "2017-12-01T18:51:14Z")

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Hi guys, I have date field with the following format:

```
"start": {
        "type": "date",
        "format": "hour_minute_second"
      }

```

Trying to get the field value in a script field using:  
"doc['start'].value" it returns a long value like 86399000. The original value was "23:59:59".

Since it is persisting the value in milliseconds, how can I parse it to a LocalTime to compare with a param value?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-with-date-hour-minute-second/109974/2 "2017-12-02T22:04:50Z")

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In the painless scripting language (5.0+), you can use java's new [time api](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-summary.html). Also note in 6.0+, `.value` for a date field returns a ReadableDateTime instead of a long.

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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:** [December 30, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-script-with-date-hour-minute-second/109974/3 "2017-12-30T22:05:12Z")

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