# Date format issue when reading data from ElasticSearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 11, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-issue-when-reading-data-from-elasticsearch/236739 "2020-06-11T15:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samargh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samargh/32/70171_2.png) [@samargh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samargh)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-issue-when-reading-data-from-elasticsearch/236739/1 "2020-06-11T15:54:01Z")
i'm reading data from elasticsearch . when i visualize date format on kibana it shows Date Aug 5, 2020 @ 23:00:00.000 =\> so it's correct but when i'm reading it from elasticsearch to do some machine learning , i noticed that date format is taken wrong Date 1.596665e+12 i'm collecting the content of the index into a dataframe with pyspark and i can do it in scala if there's any solution " from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch from pandasticsearch import Select # Connection to ElasticSearch es = Elasticsearch(['[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)'],timeout=600) documents = es.search(index='sub1',body={}) # Convert the result to Pandas Dataframe pandas\_df = Select.from\_dict(documents).to\_pandas() print(pandas\_df) " it shows wrong date format , so how can i solve it ? any help ? thank u ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-format-issue-when-reading-data-from-elasticsearch/236739/2 "2020-07-09T15:54:02Z")
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