# Updating date fields not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 14, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492 "2019-09-14T04:12:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ebdavison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebdavison)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492/1 "2019-09-14T04:12:58Z")
I have a document that I am trying to update and it contains a date. If the source gets updated (in a RDBMS) then I am trying to update the document in elasticsearch.
The document, ID 1, is like this:
```auto
{
'@timestamp': '2019-09-12T10:00:00',
'created_time': '2019-09-12T10:00:00',
'updated_time': '2019-09-12T10:00:00',
'fname': 'joe',
'lname': 'smyth'
}
```
The update doc, also ID 1, looks like:
```auto
{
'@timestamp': '2019-09-12T10:00:00',
'created_time': '2019-09-12T10:00:00',
'updated_time': '2019-09-12T11:30:00',
'fname': 'joe',
'lname': 'smyth'
}
```
If I do an insert (`PUT /index/1`) and replace the entire document, the version is incremented BUT the update\_time field is NOT changed.
If I do an update (`POST /index/_update/1`) then nothing is updated (result is `noop`).
What gives? Are dates NON-updateable?
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### Author:  [@ebdavison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebdavison)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492/2 "2019-09-14T14:23:53Z")
Just a follow-up note on this, I did some more testing and found that if I change `lname` to `smith` and also change `updated_time` then, as expected `lname` is properly updated. However, `updated_time` is still NOT updated. Both methods (index and update) result in the update of `lname` but NOT `updated_time`.
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### Author:  [@ebdavison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebdavison)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492/3 "2019-09-15T20:48:31Z")
I was able to print the result of the update and with only the date in the update command (`updated_time`), as such:
```auto
{'doc': {'updated_time': '2019-09-15T22:55:26.079445'}}
```
The result is:
```auto
{'_index': 'index', '_type': 'doc', '_id': '999999', '_version': 5,
'result': 'noop', '_shards': {'total': 0, 'successful': 0, 'failed': 0}}
```
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492/4 "2019-09-16T13:40:19Z")
can you please share a **fully** reproducible example including index creation, document indexing and updating along with the elasticsearch version you are using? Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/updating-date-fields-not-working/199492/5 "2019-10-14T13:40:20Z")
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