diff --git a/src/Models/FilteredLayer.ts b/src/Models/FilteredLayer.ts
index db228b5066..0077039f4a 100644
--- a/src/Models/FilteredLayer.ts
+++ b/src/Models/FilteredLayer.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
     constructor(
         layer: LayerConfig,
         appliedFilters?: ReadonlyMap<string, UIEventSource<undefined | number | string>>,
-        isDisplayed?: UIEventSource<boolean>
+        isDisplayed?: UIEventSource<boolean>,
     ) {
         this.layerDef = layer
         this.isDisplayed = isDisplayed ?? new UIEventSource(true)
@@ -82,25 +82,25 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
         layer: LayerConfig,
         context: string,
         osmConnection: OsmConnection,
-        enabledByDefault?: Store<boolean>
+        enabledByDefault?: Store<boolean>,
     ) {
         let isDisplayed: UIEventSource<boolean>
         if (layer.syncSelection === "local") {
             isDisplayed = LocalStorageSource.GetParsed(
                 context + "-layer-" + layer.id + "-enabled",
-                layer.shownByDefault
+                layer.shownByDefault,
             )
         } else if (layer.syncSelection === "theme-only") {
             isDisplayed = FilteredLayer.getPref(
                 osmConnection,
                 context + "-layer-" + layer.id + "-enabled",
-                layer
+                layer,
             )
         } else if (layer.syncSelection === "global") {
             isDisplayed = FilteredLayer.getPref(
                 osmConnection,
                 "layer-" + layer.id + "-enabled",
-                layer
+                layer,
             )
         } else {
             let isShown = layer.shownByDefault
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
             isDisplayed = QueryParameters.GetBooleanQueryParameter(
                 FilteredLayer.queryParameterKey(layer),
                 isShown,
-                "Whether or not layer " + layer.id + " is shown"
+                "Whether or not layer " + layer.id + " is shown",
             )
         }
 
@@ -134,13 +134,18 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
     /**
      * import Translations from "../UI/i18n/Translations"
      * import { RegexTag } from "../Logic/Tags/RegexTag"
+     * import { ComparingTag } from "../Logic/Tags/ComparingTag"
      *
      * const option: FilterConfigOption = {question: Translations.T("question"), osmTags: undefined, originalTagsSpec: "key~.*{search}.*", fields: [{name: "search", type: "string"}]  }
      * FilteredLayer.fieldsToTags(option, {search: "value_regex"}) // => new RegexTag("key", /^(.*(value_regex).*)$/s)
+     *
+     * const option: FilterConfigOption = {question: Translations.T("question"), searchTerms: undefined, osmTags: undefined, originalTagsSpec: "edit_time>{search}", fields: [{name: "search", type: "date"}]  }
+     * const comparingTag = FilteredLayer.fieldsToTags(option, {search: "2024-09-20"})
+     * comparingTag.asJson() // => "edit_time>1726790400000"
      */
     private static fieldsToTags(
         option: FilterConfigOption,
-        fieldstate: string | Record<string, string>
+        fieldstate: string | Record<string, string>,
     ): TagsFilter | undefined {
         let properties: Record<string, string>
         if (typeof fieldstate === "string") {
@@ -160,7 +165,12 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
             }
 
             for (const key in properties) {
-                v = (<string>v).replace("{" + key + "}", "(" + properties[key] + ")")
+                const needsParentheses = v.match(/[a-zA-Z0-9_:]+~/)
+                if (needsParentheses) {
+                    v = (<string>v).replace("{" + key + "}", "(" + properties[key] + ")")
+                } else {
+                    v = (<string>v).replace("{" + key + "}", properties[key])
+                }
             }
 
             return v
@@ -171,7 +181,7 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
     private static getPref(
         osmConnection: OsmConnection,
         key: string,
-        layer: LayerConfig
+        layer: LayerConfig,
     ): UIEventSource<boolean> {
         return osmConnection.GetPreference(key, layer.shownByDefault + "").sync(
             (v) => {
@@ -186,7 +196,7 @@ export default class FilteredLayer {
                     return undefined
                 }
                 return "" + b
-            }
+            },
         )
     }
 
diff --git a/src/UI/InputElement/Validator.ts b/src/UI/InputElement/Validator.ts
index 1bec3faa8e..51062e1947 100644
--- a/src/UI/InputElement/Validator.ts
+++ b/src/UI/InputElement/Validator.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export abstract class Validator {
     }
 
     public getPlaceholder() {
-        return Translations.t.validation[this.name].description
+        return Translations.t.validation[this.name]?.description
     }
 
     public isValid(_: string, getCountry?: () => string): boolean {
diff --git a/src/UI/StatisticsGUI.ts b/src/UI/StatisticsGUI.ts
index 0316bbfbf7..297c95eb23 100644
--- a/src/UI/StatisticsGUI.ts
+++ b/src/UI/StatisticsGUI.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import Filterview from "./BigComponents/Filterview.svelte"
 import FilteredLayer from "../Models/FilteredLayer"
 import { SubtleButton } from "./Base/SubtleButton"
 import { GeoOperations } from "../Logic/GeoOperations"
-import { Polygon } from "geojson"
+import { FeatureCollection, Polygon } from "geojson"
 import { Feature } from "geojson"
 
 class StatsticsForOverviewFile extends Combine {
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ class StatsticsForOverviewFile extends Combine {
             new Title("Filters"),
             new SvelteUIElement(Filterview, { filteredLayer }),
         ])
-
+        filteredLayer.currentFilter.addCallbackAndRun(tf => {
+            console.log("Filters are", tf)
+        })
         const downloaded = new UIEventSource<{ features: ChangeSetData[] }[]>([])
 
         for (const filepath of paths) {