Sure, just store as text in the doc and format it as you like in your custom indexing code.

Hi David
Thanks for your reply.
I followed your suggestion and  tested  the functionality  but  it  stored data  in  20190420442288 (yyyyMMddHHmmss) only. But i need to store data  in  04/20/2019 format.  See below mapping of  date field in index.
In my  Index  date  field  mapping  like this below
"modified" : {
"type" : "date",
"store" : true,
"format" : "yyyyMMddHHmmss"
},

I need to update  the above date  field  format in mapping like  this below
"modified" : {
"type" : "date",
"store" : true,
"format" : "MM/dd/yyyy"
},

Please give any suggestion for this requirement.

Thanks
Lokesh

Hi Lokesh gorrela,
In my opinion, it is better to store all date information as timestamp in Elasticsearch, as you will be able to do operations like sorting or search by date intervals.
If you want to index it with other format, it is better to create a different field, as David said, for example "modified_mmddyyy" and store/retrieve that field instead.
Nevertheless: Why do you want to store dates with that non-timestamp format? If you want to retrieve it from the index and display it somewhere, it is better to convert the date before displaying it.

Regards,
Jorge