# Date filter stuck in 2000
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103 "2016-03-01T10:41:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@devjr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devjr)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103/1 "2016-03-01T10:41:53Z")
Hello,
I have a strange problem with the date filter : whenever I use it and there is no year specified in the field, instead of using the current year, it puts 2000 in @timestamp.
Tested on a wide variety of logs with different date patterns.
Tested with logstash 2.1.2 and 2.2.2.
Since I have found no trace of this problem on the web, I think I am doing something wrong.
Could someone please tell me how to do it right ?
TYVM
Example message:
Mar 1 11:25:01 sv-t-vnl-relaisint01 postfix/qmgr[13312]: DEA6C14E: removed
Filter used :
```
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:timestamp} %{GREEDYDATA:real_message}"}
}
date {
match => [ "timestamp",
"MMM dd HH:mm:ss",
"MMM d HH:mm:ss"
]
timezone => "Europe/Paris"
remove_field => ["timestamp"]
}
```
My server date is correct :
root@sv-t-vnl-logs-central01:~# date
mardi 1 mars 2016, 11:38:09 (UTC+0100)
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### Author:  [@wiibaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wiibaa)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103/2 "2016-03-01T12:19:24Z")
Can you please check the LOCALE of your system, I suspect that you hit a side-effect of [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-date/issues/57](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-date/issues/57)
If that the case you must specify `locale => "en"` in your filter config.
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### Author:  [@devjr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devjr)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103/3 "2016-03-01T13:26:23Z")
It did the trick, thank you very much !
For the record, version and locale used :
root@sv-t-vnl-logs-central01:/opt/logstash/bin# ./logstash --version
logstash 2.2.2
root@sv-t-vnl-logs-central01:/opt/logstash/bin# ./plugin list --verbose logstash-filter-date
logstash-filter-date (2.1.2)
root@sv-t-vnl-logs-central01:/opt/logstash/bin# locale
LANG=fr\_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC\_CTYPE="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_NUMERIC="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_TIME="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_COLLATE="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_MONETARY="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_MESSAGES="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_PAPER="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_NAME="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_ADDRESS="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_TELEPHONE="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_MEASUREMENT="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_IDENTIFICATION="fr\_FR.UTF-8"
LC\_ALL=
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-filter-stuck-in-2000/43103/4 "2017-07-06T05:09:07Z")