How to filter web3 events with date range?

Question

I have got some transactions which takes date as a parameter. When doing getPastEvents, is there any way to pass a date range in filter tab like below:

startDate: 10-03-2019 endDate: 30-03-2019

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The reason why dates aren't reliable in a blockchain is that there is a lack of global clock.
It is one of the main topics in distributed computing.

Anyway back to your original question and how can you achieve it:
I'd suggest you to track blocks and it's timestamps and store it somewhere (db or even a file, your choice) You can do that by using getBlock function.

So you'll know your fromBlock & toBlock to query using getPastEvents