# Alerting in Kibana : formatting for dates **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [March 23, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-in-kibana-formatting-for-dates/300470 "2022-03-23T14:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![agaucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@agaucher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/agaucher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-in-kibana-formatting-for-dates/300470/1 "2022-03-23T14:25:30Z")
Hello, I use the alerting rules that are directly available in Kibana ( **i don't use "Watcher"** ). As action, I send an email and i put the field **{{context.hits.0.\_source.inventoryDate}}** in the body. It works well, but the format is not very good: I would like to specify the format of the date. How can I do that ? Thank you for your help, Alexis ---
**Author:** ![gmmorris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gmmorris/32/72624_2.png) [@gmmorris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmorris)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-in-kibana-formatting-for-dates/300470/2 "2022-03-23T14:27:44Z")
Hi @agaucher There isn't a way to do this just yet. We have an [issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/84217) tracking this requirement though, so it would be very helpful if you could add a comment with your exact use case so we can weigh that in when planning the work. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-in-kibana-formatting-for-dates/300470/3 "2022-04-20T14:28:07Z")
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