# Question about date mapping and search queries
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-date-mapping-and-search-queries/18063
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 12, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-date-mapping-and-search-queries/18063 "2014-06-12T10:14:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@yannis\_rossetto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yannis_rossetto)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-date-mapping-and-search-queries/18063/1 "2014-06-12T10:14:37Z")
Hello,
In our project, we use elaticsearch to index files. For these files, we
want to store :
1. Text data like title, description, ...
2. Date data
Each document don't have necessary a date, and a document can have multiple
date data (it depends on user configuration).
I made some test regarding the date data in order to have a concrete
example and to know how we can build a query with a date parameter (I've
attached the CURL requests I did) .
I've added a date like "post\_date" = '2014-06-12" (with a string) and I was
able to search with { "post\_date" : {"gte": "now-1d" } }.
Is it the standard behaviour for date data (add it as string and be able to
search it with date selector) ?
Thanks a lot,
Yannis ROSSETTO.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-date-mapping-and-search-queries/18063/2 "2017-07-06T01:23:03Z")