# Date format in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-elasticsearch/289608>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-elasticsearch/289608 "2021-11-18T14:31:07Z")\
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If you want the field on the document to be a [date](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date.html), then it is stored as milliseconds since the epoch, so it cannot store the date without the time.

If you want a string in a different format then [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-date-format-from-yyyy-mm-dd-to-dd-mmm-yyyy/132569/2) shows an example.

If you just want the date why are you using a date filter at all?

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