# Scripted Fields Date Math

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-fields-date-math/158649>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-fields-date-math/158649 "2018-11-28T20:39:25Z")\
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> [@kb2295](#):
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> LocalDateTime.now().value

Painless intentionally doesn't expose .now() style methods per [Groovy to Painless; get current date time](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/groovy-to-painless-get-current-date-time/95471)

You can get the milliseconds of the document's @timestamp field using the following `doc['@timestamp'].value.getMillis()`

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