# Query date field which is strictly "today", "yesterday"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-date-field-which-is-strictly-today-yesterday/53195
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 17, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-date-field-which-is-strictly-today-yesterday/53195 "2016-06-17T21:34:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-date-field-which-is-strictly-today-yesterday/53195/1 "2016-06-17T21:34:21Z")

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Using Kibana, I have daily named indices. I would like create different Kibana "Search" for today events and yesterday event.

I believed this was obvious but nop 😕

**With a query string, how can I query a date field for today or yesterday?**

Thanks you,

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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 5, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-date-field-which-is-strictly-today-yesterday/53195/2 "2017-07-05T22:42:40Z")

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