When the date format is defined in mapping, you can not use another format when querying using range date query or filter.
For example, this won't work:
```
DELETE /test
PUT /test/t/1
{
"date": "2014-01-01"
}
GET /test/_search
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"filter": {
"range": {
"date": {
"from": "01/01/2014"
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
It causes:
```
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException: failed to parse date field [01/01/2014], tried both date format [dateOptionalTime], and timestamp number
```
It could be nice if we can support at query time another date format just like we support `analyzer` at search time on String fields.
Something like:
```
GET /test/_search
{
"query": {
"filtered": {
"filter": {
"range": {
"date": {
"from": "01/01/2014",
"format": "dd/MM/yyyy"
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
Same for queries:
```
GET /test/_search
{
"query": {
"range": {
"date": {
"from": "01/01/2014",
"format": "dd/MM/yyyy"
}
}
}
}
```
Closes#7189.
Filters and Queries now supports `time_zone` parameter which defines which time zone should be applied to the query or filter to convert it to UTC time based value.
When applied on `date` fields the `range` filter and queries accept also a `time_zone` parameter.
The `time_zone` parameter will be applied to your input lower and upper bounds and will move them to UTC time based date:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"constant_score": {
"filter": {
"range" : {
"born" : {
"gte": "2012-01-01",
"lte": "now",
"time_zone": "+1:00"
}
}
}
}
}
{
"range" : {
"born" : {
"gte": "2012-01-01",
"lte": "now",
"time_zone": "+1:00"
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
In the above examples, `gte` will be actually moved to `2011-12-31T23:00:00` UTC date.
NOTE: if you give a date with a timezone explicitly defined and use the `time_zone` parameter, `time_zone` will be
ignored. For example, setting `from` to `2012-01-01T00:00:00+01:00` with `"time_zone":"+10:00"` will still use `+01:00` time zone.
Closes#3729.
David Pilato
Clinton Gormley
javanna