# Converting epoch date to human date

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-epoch-date-to-human-date/229749>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-epoch-date-to-human-date/229749 "2020-04-25T09:54:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![josete242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@josete242](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/josete242)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-epoch-date-to-human-date/229749/1 "2020-04-25T09:54:57Z")

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Hi.

I'm new to ELK and I'm still starting to get to know the entire stack. I am working with an index that has a field (events.startTime) is type number. i think it's epoch in milliseconds  
How can I convert that timestamp to humadate? is there any conversion

Thanks in advance.  
Cheers!  
Jose A

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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:** [May 23, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-epoch-date-to-human-date/229749/2 "2020-05-23T09:54:59Z")

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