# Time Filter used while creating index pattern
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985 "2020-02-26T09:08:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/1 "2020-02-26T09:08:29Z")
Can we select multiple time filters for filtering our data while creating an index pattern?
In my data, I have 3-time fields: Grant Date, Status Date, Validity Date.
I want to filter my data according to Grant and Validity Date.
How can I do that?
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/2 "2020-02-26T10:32:37Z")
Do you want to filter the data of your index patterns in dashboards and visualizations by these fields? You can only connect a single field to the time picker on the top right, but you can add filters on other fields by adding filter pills below the query bar and pinning them.
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/3 "2020-02-26T10:50:48Z")
Thank You So Much Joe for helping me out. 🙂
How do I give the date values in the filter?
When I give date value as "Feb 25, 2017 @ 15:26:28.307" to "Feb 26, 2017 @ 16:26:28.307" , it gives following error:
`Discover: failed to parse date field [Feb 25, 2017 @ 16:26:28.307] with format [strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis]: [failed to parse date field [Feb 25, 2017 @ 16:26:28.307] with format [strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis]]`
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/4 "2020-03-09T10:19:49Z")
That's a little confusing - you have to specify dates in the format of the mapping of your index. In your case it's either `strict_date_optional_time` or `epoch_millis `. `2017-02-25` or `2017-02-25T16:26:28Z` (be aware of UTC timezone) should both work.
Reference: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date.html)
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### Author:  [@cravinder489](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cravinder489)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/5 "2020-03-09T10:25:25Z")
Thank You Joe
It helped.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-used-while-creating-index-pattern/220985/6 "2020-04-06T10:25:26Z")
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