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[Docs] Clarify accessing Date methods in painless (elastic#33560)
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The documentation currently tells users to use `doc['event_date'].value.getMillis` to access
milliseconds in a date. It turns out the way it works is `doc['event_date'].value.millis`. This 
change corrects this and gives a hint at how other date related methods work.
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Christoph Büscher authored Sep 19, 2018
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==== Dates

Date fields are exposed as
`ReadableDateTime` or
so they support methods like
`getYear`,
and `getDayOfWeek`.
To get milliseconds since epoch call
`getMillis`.
For example, the following returns every hockey player's birth year:
`ReadableDateTime`, so they support methods like `getYear`, `getDayOfWeek`
or e.g. getting milliseconds since epoch with `getMillis`. To use these
in a script, leave out the `get` prefix and continue with lowercasing the
rest of the method name. For example, the following returns every hockey
player's birth year:

[source,js]
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