# Convert timezone of @timestamp field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-timezone-of-timestamp-field/212703>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-timezone-of-timestamp-field/212703 "2019-12-20T20:05:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-timezone-of-timestamp-field/212703/6 "2019-12-23T16:30:23Z")

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The trailing Z says the date is UTC, so the timezone option is ignored. Use mutate+gsub to remove it.

```
mutate { gsub => ["new_timestamp", "Z$", ""] }
```

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