# Using painless to calculate durations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-painless-to-calculate-durations/119495>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 12, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-painless-to-calculate-durations/119495 "2018-02-12T15:16:41Z")\
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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:** [February 13, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-painless-to-calculate-durations/119495/10 "2018-02-13T22:05:09Z")

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[How to calculate delta value](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-delta-value/107156/2) might also be useful.

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