# Arabic date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 11, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987 "2016-04-11T12:13:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![veve90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/veve90/32/6517_2.png) [@veve90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/veve90)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987/1 "2016-04-11T12:13:48Z")

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Hello,

I have an arabic date, and I would like to know if there is a way to do a date match...

my date: "٢٠١٦-٠٤-٠٧t١٩:٤٤:٢٠.٤٠٢z

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Alex\_6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_6/32/1330_2.png) [@Alex\_6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_6)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987/2 "2016-04-11T16:06:39Z")

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Do you mean you want to use the [date filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html)? There doesn't seem to be a way to do it directly since that filter's matching uses Java's [SimpleDateFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html) which doesn't handle those types of characters.

Do you have a way to translate that? I'm not familiar with Arabic dates so can't give much direct advice.

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**Author:** ![veve90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/veve90/32/6517_2.png) [@veve90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/veve90)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987/3 "2016-04-12T07:28:11Z")

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Hello, yes, I would like to use the date filter.  
I think the only way to translate would be Google Translate ([https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs](https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs)).  
However, can I call this API for each event?

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![veve90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/veve90/32/6517_2.png) [@veve90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/veve90)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987/4 "2016-04-15T07:55:35Z")

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In fact... in java is working...

```
    String dateArabe = "٢٠١٦-٠٤-٠٧ ١٩:٤٤:٢٠.٤٠٢";
    SimpleDateFormat dt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS");
    Date date = dt.parse(dateArabe);
    System.out.println(date.toString());

```

So, why it is not working in logstash... (?)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/arabic-date/46987/5 "2017-07-06T05:02:05Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:02am UTC