# Timestamp range search in the search bar

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174 "2017-07-06T22:26:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shuxin\_Lin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Shuxin\_Lin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shuxin_Lin)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174/1 "2017-07-06T22:26:48Z")

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Hi,  
I want to search all the entries within a time span.

Like this: search all the entries during a time span from `2017-07-02 12:05:51.898` to `2017-07-02 12:06:15.464`

I know `2017-07-02 12:05:51.898` in epoch\_millis is `1499022351898` , and `2017-07-02 12:06:15.464` in epoch\_millis is `1499022375464`.

So  
`@timestamp: [1499022351898 TO 1499022375464]`  
can do the job.

But epoch\_millis is not quite friendly for search. So something like:

`@timestamp: [2017-07-02 12:05:51.898 TO 2017-07-02 12:06:15.464]`

is what I want. But it does not work.

I know it can be done by json query. But it is too long and too messy.

Any help would be appreciated!

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174/2 "2017-07-07T17:25:34Z")

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hi @Shuxin_Lin,

can you use the time-picker in the top right corner of Kibana instead? that allows you to put in human-readable time-stamps to filter by time.

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**Author:** ![Shuxin\_Lin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Shuxin\_Lin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shuxin_Lin)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174/3 "2017-07-07T19:26:49Z")

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Thank you for the reply!

But I have some other date fields besides `@timestamp` to be filtered.

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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:** [August 4, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-range-search-in-the-search-bar/92174/4 "2017-08-04T19:36:51Z")

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