# Query only month and day
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317 "2018-04-17T08:48:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@f64337c9e1c3c8927cd2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f64337c9e1c3c8927cd2)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317/1 "2018-04-17T08:48:43Z")
user1 birthday(2001-03-04)
user2 birthday(2002-03-04)
user3 birthday(2003-03-04)
user4 birthday(2008-04-04)
can i query the users which birthday is 03-04?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317/3 "2018-04-17T12:10:25Z")
You need at index time to index you document as:
```auto
{
"user": "user1",
"birthday": "2001-03-04",
"birthday_month_day": "03-04"
}
```
This is something easily solvable on the client side (on your side) but you can also think about an [ingest Script processor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/script-processor.html).
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### Author:  [@f64337c9e1c3c8927cd2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f64337c9e1c3c8927cd2)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317/4 "2018-04-18T02:16:17Z")
> [@dadoonet](#):
>
> You need at index time to index you document as:
en....it's a simple way，😅
I originally thought that es had native support
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317/5 "2018-04-18T04:14:13Z")
May be it is doable but it will be super slow.
I mean that you are probably looking for best practices here.
Solving the problem at index time is always better IMO.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-only-month-and-day/128317/6 "2018-05-16T04:14:18Z")
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