# Date filters

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Frontend Search Settings -> Date filters
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![](https://i.imgur.com/yAllpov.png)

These options will allow filtering posts, pages (or any CPT) by **publication date**.

There are two date filter options to use:

* *Display 'Posts from date' filter* -> Any objects before this date will be excluded
* *Display 'Posts to date' filter* -> Any objects after this date will be excluded

  Either of the options can be *Disabled* or set to a *Date* or to a *Relative Date*.

## Date vs Relative date

When using the Date, the exact date must be specified to the selector. With the Relative Date, you can use a more dynamic value - such as the current date by default, as it defines a date *before the current date*. Positive values are subtracted from the current date, negative values are added to the current date.

For example, let us assume today is *10th of january 2016*. Changing the relative date to:

*  **1** year, 0 months, 0 days -> will result: 10th of january **2015**
* **-1** year, 0 months, 0 days -> will result: 10th of january **2017**
* 0 year,  **1** months,  **1** days -> will result: **9th** of **december** **2015**
* 0 year, **-1** months, **-1** days -> will result: **11th** of **february** **2016**