# Date\_detection setting ignored
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-detection-setting-ignored/23091
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-detection-setting-ignored/23091 "2015-04-03T23:09:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@secsubs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/secsubs)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-detection-setting-ignored/23091/1 "2015-04-03T23:09:22Z")
I have JSON being fed to ES by logstash. I have two templates for the
logstash indices and:
- in the first template, a field "rawMsgTS" is explicitly declared as
"string"
- both templates have date\_detection set to "false"
Templates:
[http://pastebin.com/NvAeUGDg](http://pastebin.com/NvAeUGDg)
But ES still tries to parse the field "rawMsgTS" as a data and bombs ☹
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
- Tim
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### Author:  [@secsubs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/secsubs)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-detection-setting-ignored/23091/2 "2015-04-04T05:57:10Z")
Never mind, I was expecting mappings/templates to take effect on an open
index. Once I deleted the index, I saw that the updated templates/mappings
get applied at index creation time.
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 4:09:22 PM UTC-7, [sec...@gmail.com](mailto:sec...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I have JSON being fed to ES by logstash. I have two templates for the
> logstash indices and:
>
> - in the first template, a field "rawMsgTS" is explicitly declared as
> "string"
> - both templates have date\_detection set to "false"
>
> Templates:
> [ES templates - Pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/NvAeUGDg)
>
> But ES still tries to parse the field "rawMsgTS" as a data and bombs ☹
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Tim
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-detection-setting-ignored/23091/3 "2017-07-06T00:21:42Z")