# Change default timestamp field of Index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522 "2022-05-12T05:02:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![shivendra95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@shivendra95](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivendra95)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522/1 "2022-05-12T05:02:38Z")

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I have an index pattern in kibana whose timestamp is in UTC, I want to change this default timestamp to another date field. Is there a way to achieve this?

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522/2 "2022-05-12T21:48:57Z")

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Which your version of the stack?

If you go to advanced settings - you can set the timezone - default is browser.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-05-12 at 5.44.40 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/4/44b572ab84644f60e36dbb5e1c273a0f6986c4dd.jpeg)

> **[Advanced Settings | Kibana Guide \[8.2\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html)**
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> Kibana provides you with several options to share \*Discover\* saved searches, dashboards, \*Visualize Library\* visualizations, and \*Canvas\* workpads with others, or on a website.

If you want to change the timefield to a different date on the UI - its being worked on right now [ability to set human readable title of data view & ability to edit data view by shivindera · Pull Request #124191 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/124191)

If you want to change it at source then you will have to modify your index. There is an example here - [Changing the default timestamp after creating index pattern](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-timestamp-after-creating-index-pattern/143132)

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522/3 "2022-05-13T03:20:03Z")

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> [@shivendra95](#):
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> I have an index pattern in kibana whose timestamp is in UTC, I want to change this default timestamp to another date field. Is there a way to achieve this?

Perhaps I am not understanding the question

But If you just want to change which field is used by the index pattern as the Timestamp field say to a field other than `@timestamp` ... you can delete the index pattern and re-create it and choose a different time / date field.

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 ![Screen Shot 2022-05-12 at 8.20.51 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/5/85df276971e4a8398b1a1400283d92500b8ab566.png)

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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:** [June 10, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-timestamp-field-of-index/304522/4 "2022-06-10T03:20:14Z")

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