# About date format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-date-format/149934>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-date-format/149934 "2018-09-26T06:27:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![liwenlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@liwenlin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liwenlin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-date-format/149934/1 "2018-09-26T06:27:41Z")

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@timestamp format is like this 2018-09-26T04:27:03.368Z。but this is not what i want.

is there any method to transfer it to yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss or add a new field as yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-date-format/149934/2 "2018-09-26T21:47:41Z")

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Can you share a bit more background on why you want to change it? It should not make a difference in your queries.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-date-format/149934/3 "2018-10-24T21:47:42Z")

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