# Can't change timezone when convert time from unixtime
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068 "2016-06-07T12:22:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@neolithik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neolithik)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068/1 "2016-06-07T12:22:16Z")
hi i have same string in log :
1465301456.359 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 0.036 GET /cashier/manipulation/searchDBy
as you see date in hear in unix format so i'm use date filter
```
date {
```
#match =\> ["msec", "YYYY.MM.dd HH:mm:ss", "UNIX"]
match =\> ["msec", "UNIX"]
target =\> "msec"
timezone =\> "Europe/Kiev"
}
but still parsing get a date in UTC
@timestamp June 7th 2016, 15:10:02.159
msec 2016-06-07T12:10:56.359Z
how i can convert unix time not UTC
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068/2 "2016-06-07T12:39:50Z")
The date filter is designed to translate a timestamp into ISO8601 format, typically in "Zulu" time notation (the Z at the end of the line), which implies UTC time. By definition, a unix timestamp is already considered to be UTC time, so I believe any specified timezone would be ignored for such a conversion.
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### Author:  [@neolithik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neolithik)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068/3 "2016-06-07T12:53:25Z")
If I understand correctly, then I can not change the time zone in the converted date?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068/4 "2016-06-07T23:22:12Z")
No, because unix epoch is in UTC
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-change-timezone-when-convert-time-from-unixtime/52068/5 "2017-07-06T04:54:18Z")