# 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:** ![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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