# Date Conversion from GMT to PST

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-conversion-from-gmt-to-pst/44983
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-conversion-from-gmt-to-pst/44983 "2016-03-21T11:50:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Ganesh2303](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ganesh2303](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ganesh2303)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-conversion-from-gmt-to-pst/44983/1 "2016-03-21T11:50:39Z")

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HI,  
I'm trying to convert the GMT date filed into PST field but it failed to convert the field can anyone help me to resolve it

timestamp=\> "2016-03-18 23:59:51"  
date {  
match =\> ["timestamp", "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]  
timezone =\> "PST8PDT"  
}

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-conversion-from-gmt-to-pst/44983/2 "2016-03-21T11:54:30Z")

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The date filter always converts to UTC. The `timezone` option indicates how the source timestamp (in your case the contents of the `timestamp` field) is to be interpreted.

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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: [July 6, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-conversion-from-gmt-to-pst/44983/3 "2017-07-06T05:06:06Z")

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