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layout: changelog
title: "Announcing time helper queries: Cleaner, more expressive time-based queries"
date: 2025-09-02
cover: /images/blog/announcing-time-helper-queries/cover.avif
tags: databases, performance
---
A new set of database queries, **time helper queries**, is now live.

Filtering by time is one of the most common patterns in real-world apps. Until now, this often meant adding extra conditions that made your queries longer and harder to read.

With time helper queries, you can now handle time-based filtering in a simple and expressive way. You’ll find four new options:

- `createdBefore`: Find rows created before a given date
- `createdAfter`: Find rows created after a given date
- `updatedBefore`: Find rows updated before a given date
- `updatedAfter`: Find rows updated after a given date

That means you can:
- Reduce boilerplate in your code
- Write cleaner, more readable queries
- Make time-based filtering faster and easier to manage

Available now on **Appwrite Cloud and Self-hosted.**

[Read the announcement to learn more](/blog/post/announcing-time-helper-queries)