curl -XPUT localhost:9200/index1/type1/1 -d '{
  "date": "2013-09-03T15:07:47.000Z"
}
'

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/index1/_refresh

#one hit gets returned using search api
curl -XGET localhost:9200/index1/_search -d '
{ 
    "query" : {
        "query_string": {
            "query": "date:[* TO now-1d]"
        }   
    }
}
'
#count 0 using count api
curl -XGET localhost:9200/index1/_count -d '
{ 
    "query_string": {
      "query": "date:[* TO now-1d]"
    }
}
'