# Date format in Index template kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 23, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791 "2021-06-23T12:59:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Nisha2297](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nisha2297)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791/1 "2021-06-23T12:59:08Z")
Can you please help me with the correct format for Date that I can give in my index mapping template to get the date in Epoch format.
I am getting the date from source in epoch format like this "1624348829313". I want it in the same way in Kibana also.
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791/2 "2021-06-23T19:45:45Z")
> [@Nisha2297](#):
>
> th the correct format for Date that I can give in my index mapping template to get the date in Epoch f
Can you do a POST of the date and check how the format looks like?
For ex:
```auto
when is post this data:
POST test/doc
{"date": {
"value": "1495956650"
}
}
```
Elasticsearch uses by default ms since epoch.
> **[Date field type | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date.html)**
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### Author:  [@Nisha2297](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nisha2297)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791/3 "2021-06-24T03:39:46Z")
Hi @rashmi ,
I don't have permissions to use the Dev tools. Can you please suggest the format that I can apply in the index mapping template itself.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791/4 "2021-06-24T05:31:11Z")
Elasticsearch stores dates as epoch format, but will return them as ISO8601 ([from here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.13/date.html));
> Internally, dates are converted to UTC (if the time-zone is specified) and stored as a long number representing milliseconds-since-the-epoch.
I don't know how to tell Kibana to natively only show epoch, I can't find anything that does that as it's not really human-readable. The only way I can think would be to store the epoch time as a long and not a date and then use that. But again, it's not really friendly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-in-index-template-kibana/276791/5 "2021-07-22T05:32:10Z")
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