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@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ JSON doesn't have a date data type, so dates in Elasticsearch can either be:
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Internally, dates are converted to UTC (if the time-zone is specified) and
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stored as a long number representing milliseconds-since-the-epoch.
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+NOTE: Use the <<date_nanos,date_nanos>> field type if a nanosecond resolution is expected.
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Queries on dates are internally converted to range queries on this long
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representation, and the result of aggregations and stored fields is converted
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back to a string depending on the date format that is associated with the field.
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