# Date, change day and month position

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-change-day-and-month-position/221606>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-change-day-and-month-position/221606 "2020-03-02T01:05:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-change-day-and-month-position/221606/2 "2020-03-02T13:54:50Z")

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If you want to change the format in kibana then kibana lets you do that. If you want to store a string in a different format in elasticsearch then use [a ruby filter and strftime](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-a-date-input-as-a-string-into-a-new-format/177498/2). If you want to change the format in which elasticsearch stores dates then you cannot do so.

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