# Relative range queries

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/relative-range-queries/5739
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 1, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/relative-range-queries/5739 "2011-11-01T19:44:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Tyler\_Schroeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tyler\_Schroeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tyler_Schroeder)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/relative-range-queries/5739/1 "2011-11-01T19:44:37Z")

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Is it possible to do relative range queries? IE: modified\_at: new Date() -  
30. I would like to add a percolate query, which queries x days in the past.

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### Author: ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/relative-range-queries/5739/2 "2011-11-01T19:57:47Z")

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I am not aware of such a date math functionality - can't you use a  
percolate query which does some scripting? Or probably you can create  
an issue...

Peter.

On 1 Nov., 20:44, Tyler Schroeder [vailrip...@gmail.com](mailto:vailrip...@gmail.com) wrote:

> Is it possible to do relative range queries? IE: modified\_at: new Date() -  
> 30. I would like to add a percolate query, which queries x days in the past.

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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 6, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/relative-range-queries/5739/3 "2017-07-06T03:50:12Z")

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