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[Docs] Explain incomplete dates in range queries (#30689)
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The current documentation isn't very clear about how incomplete dates are
treated when specifying custom formats in a `range` query. This change adds a
note explaining how missing month or year coordinates translate to dates that
have the missings slots filled with unix time start date (1970-01-01)

Closes #30634
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Christoph Büscher committed May 24, 2018
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// CONSOLE

Note that if the date misses some of the year, month and day coordinates, the
missing parts are filled with the start of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time[unix time], which is January 1st, 1970.
This means, that when e.g. specifying `dd` as the format, a value like `"gte" : 10`
will translate to `1970-01-10T00:00:00.000Z`.

===== Time zone in range queries

Dates can be converted from another timezone to UTC either by specifying the
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