# Converting a date input as a string into a new format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-a-date-input-as-a-string-into-a-new-format/177498>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 18, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-a-date-input-as-a-string-into-a-new-format/177498 "2019-04-18T15:15:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-a-date-input-as-a-string-into-a-new-format/177498/2 "2019-04-18T16:29:21Z")

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You could do it in Ruby. This works, but doesn't feel quite right.

```
    ruby {
        code => '
            t = event.get("@timestamp")
            event.set("dateTime", Time.at(t.to_f).strftime("%Y.%m.%d %H.%M.%S"))
        '
    }
```

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