# Dates as first class citizens (in a database and as entities)

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/dates-as-first-class-citizens-in-a-database-and-as-entities/8195>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** dates\
**Created:** [January 30, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/dates-as-first-class-citizens-in-a-database-and-as-entities/8195 "2025-01-30T21:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/dates-as-first-class-citizens-in-a-database-and-as-entities/8195/2 "2025-01-31T22:21:43Z")

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Hard agree! Looks like they are already thinking about something of this type. Hopefully there will be a rich discussion about how it could work before implementation.

> [@chestnut Fibery major conceptual (yet) unsolved problems](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-major-conceptual-yet-unsolved-problems/7995/1):
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> - Dates as Databases. There are many problems with date as a simple field representation, like lack of grouping, poor visualization, etc. It is quite hard to unify dates concepts, but we have some ideas, like create a special integration that will populate databases like Year, Quarter, Month, Date and use relations to entities and these databases.

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