# Show document age in search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-document-age-in-search/31941>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 9, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-document-age-in-search/31941 "2015-10-09T21:26:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Tarnas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chris\_Tarnas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Tarnas)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-document-age-in-search/31941/1 "2015-10-09T21:26:07Z")

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I have a received a requirement to show a documents age on a saved "discovery" in a dashboard - so if the document was timestamped an hour ago, the field would show 1 hour.. I took a look at a scripted field but expressions do not work l with dates nor do they have a concept of "now". Am I missing something obvious?

thanks!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-document-age-in-search/31941/2 "2015-10-10T02:28:15Z")

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If you can show what you have tried, perhaps someone can point out what you may be missing?

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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, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-document-age-in-search/31941/3 "2017-07-06T14:11:40Z")

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