# About @timestamp

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-timestamp/148799>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-timestamp/148799 "2018-09-17T09:19:27Z")\
**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 17, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-timestamp/148799/1 "2018-09-17T09:19:27Z")

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the default @timestamp format is UTC format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'), such as 2018-09-17T08:28:49.883Z , how to set it as GMT format (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) ? thank you

My data result example  
"\_source": {

- "@timestamp": "2018-09-17T08:51:09.927Z",
- "beat": {
  - "hostname": "host1",
  - "name": "mybeat",
  - "version": "5.6.1"},

- "metricset": {
  - "module": "system",
  - "name": "process",
  - "rtt": 72240}  
}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-timestamp/148799/2 "2018-09-17T09:25:28Z")

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You cannot, we only use UTC.

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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 15, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-timestamp/148799/3 "2018-10-15T09:25:32Z")

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