# Searching on a date
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 17, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013 "2013-05-17T14:25:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dantuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dantuff)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013/1 "2013-05-17T14:25:31Z")
Is there a way to search on a date or a number of dates.
I have a date field that is stored in the index as so:
"mydate":{
"type" : "date",
"index" : "not\_analyzed",
"format" : "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ||yyyy-MM-dd"
},
but I want to be able to search for a document that has a particular date
(not a range query) i.e.
myDate:2012-05-14
or even search for documents that have these partiuclar dates
myDate:2012-05-14 OR myDate:2013-05-14
Is it possible to index a text version of the field and remove the time
stamp then I can treat it as this particualr date query as a text query.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013/2 "2013-05-17T14:33:57Z")
IMHO, you should remove it on client side prior to indexing.
Otherwise, using range queries is fine with dates. Why don't you want to use Range?
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Le 17 mai 2013 à 16:25, es newbie [dan.tuffery@gmail.com](mailto:dan.tuffery@gmail.com) a écrit :
> Is there a way to search on a date or a number of dates.
>
> I have a date field that is stored in the index as so:
>
> "mydate":{
> "type" : "date",
> "index" : "not\_analyzed",
> "format" : "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ||yyyy-MM-dd"
> },
>
> but I want to be able to search for a document that has a particular date (not a range query) i.e.
>
> myDate:2012-05-14
>
> or even search for documents that have these partiuclar dates
>
> myDate:2012-05-14 OR myDate:2013-05-14
>
> Is it possible to index a text version of the field and remove the time stamp then I can treat it as this particualr date query as a text query.
>
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### Author:  [@dantuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dantuff)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013/3 "2013-05-17T15:02:19Z")
You're right I can use range query for this search. Thanks
On Friday, May 17, 2013 3:25:31 PM UTC+1, es newbie wrote:
> Is there a way to search on a date or a number of dates.
>
> I have a date field that is stored in the index as so:
>
> "mydate":{
> "type" : "date",
> "index" : "not\_analyzed",
> "format" : "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ||yyyy-MM-dd"
> },
>
> but I want to be able to search for a document that has a particular date
> (not a range query) i.e.
>
> myDate:2012-05-14
>
> or even search for documents that have these partiuclar dates
>
> myDate:2012-05-14 OR myDate:2013-05-14
>
> Is it possible to index a text version of the field and remove the time
> stamp then I can treat it as this particualr date query as a text query.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-on-a-date/12013/4 "2017-07-06T02:36:01Z")