WP_Query for Archive Page Date not work

Question

I have edited my theme on archive.php for show only a specific post and exclude a post with specific meta_key:

$posts_to_exclude_args = array(
                    'meta_key' => 'vip_box',                
                    );
                    $posts_to_exclude = new WP_Query( $posts_to_exclude_args );
                    $to_exclude = array();
                    while ( $posts_to_exclude->have_posts() ) : $posts_to_exclude->the_post(); 
                        $to_exclude[] = $post->ID;
                    endwhile;
                    wp_reset_postdata();
                    $lastupdated_args = array(
                    'post__not_in' => $to_exclude,
                    'author__in'     => $author,
                    'category__in'   => $terms,
                    'posts_per_page' => 12,
                    'has_archive' => true,
                    'paged'          => $paged,                 
                    );
                    $lastupdated_loop = new WP_Query( $lastupdated_args );
                    query_posts( $lastupdated_args );
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

And its perfect but now if i open a date link/url mywebsite.com/2017/06 it show all post and not only post in this date, why?.

Please can you help me?

Answer 1

I have fixed with this code, but i think there is a best solution than this. =)

$year     = get_query_var('year');
                    $monthnum = get_query_var('monthnum');
                    $day      = get_query_var('day');

'date_query' => array(
                        array(
                        'year'     => $year,
                        'monthnum'    => $monthnum,  
                        'day'  => $day,  
                            ),
                        ),
                    );