# Searching by date and not date and time **URL:** \ **Category:** Database\ **Created:** [August 12, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/searching-by-date-and-not-date-and-time/35541 "2018-08-12T14:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/keith/32/56020_2.png) [@keith](https://forum.bubble.io/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/searching-by-date-and-not-date-and-time/35541/2 "2018-08-12T17:07:46Z")
Sure. How you do it just depends on what criteria you want users to be able to use. You need to understand and keep in mind that a date object is ALWAYS a date/time object. So, if you let a user select a date to check against, you may need to first manipulate its time parts to ensure the right results. I discuss this in some detail here: > [@How to Set "Smaller/Larger or Equal"](http://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-set-smaller-larger-or-equal/35480/9): > > @dan1 points this out a little bit, but to drill down a bit: The Date datatype in Bubble is like (probably IS) the Date datatype as found in JavaScript. While we call them “dates”, these things are date/time objects. As a human being, as I go about my day, I think about “today’s date” as being the date shown to me on my calendar (actually, the date my phone shows to me). But that’s not the same thing as a date/time object. A date/time object is bigger and tells us a lot more stuff. A date/tim… In general an event will be inside of a range bounded by datetime1 and datetime2 if: datetime2\<- range -\>datetime1 contains point event’s:startDateTime Does that help get you started? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.bubble.io/t/searching-by-date-and-not-date-and-time/35541)._