Automatic Date conversion at load time?

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#1

Hi Everyone

I have a question to implicit date conversion. Is it possible that EL 1.7 does automatically convert a local time to utc time?
My POST to the index does look like this (it's a locale time in my timezone):

[...]
"loadDate": "2016-07-27 10:00:04",
[...]

But Elasticsearch stores something like this (search result):

[...]
"loadDate": "2016-07-27T08:00:04.000Z",
[...]

And the correspondig mapping to the entry aboe looks like this:
"loadDate": {
"type": "date",
"format": "dateOptionalTime"
}

Thanks for your answer.

Best regards
Matt

#2

Hello samatthias,

Yes, elasticsearch will parse that date using system default's timezone (as the input value does not specifies it) and convert it to UTC.

Cheers

#3

Hi Thiago

Thanks for your clarification. Then I'm on the sunny side :slight_smile: and I don't have to convert it before loading.

Best regards
Matt

#4