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We convert dates to unix epoch, which is why you should insert them as UTC. On 20 March 2015 at 10:22, Roger de Cordova Farias < [email protected]> wrote: > Elastic won't edit your source. The long type is used internally > > 2015-03-20 14:16 GMT-03:00 Erik Iverson <[email protected]>: > > Hello everyone, >> >> I have a question on how Elasticsearch returns JSON representations of >> fields with the "date" type. My confusion comes from the fact that the page >> http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html >> says: >> >> "The date type is a special type which maps to JSON string type. It >> follows a specific format that can be explicitly set. *All dates are >> UTC. Internally, a date maps to a number type long, with the added parsing >> stage from string to long and from long to string.*" (emphasis mine) >> >> It sounds like dates are stored as type 'long'. But when I POST documents >> with dates and then retrieve them, they are returned in the same format as >> I POSTed them. So it appears ES is storing how I POSTed each date >> somewhere. >> >> I have a reproducible curl example demonstrating my confusion in more >> detail on Stackoverflow here: >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29157945/how-does-elasticsearch-convert-dates-to-json-string-representations >> >> Thank you for any insights! >> >> >> Best, >> --Erik Iverson >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/add6bafe-bdba-406e-b95d-ade17d0a9df5%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/add6bafe-bdba-406e-b95d-ade17d0a9df5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAJp2530Vwz99jV1K0JWNpGkOvR23PhHPAPacc-oROO0hZFjA0g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAJp2530Vwz99jV1K0JWNpGkOvR23PhHPAPacc-oROO0hZFjA0g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X84ecBBxOfBFNkKt3EKLSUiTCHAkqpv4fV44W30dYx-cw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
