# Edit Timestamp for better visualisation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689 "2018-07-19T08:27:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sakshi\_Aggarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Sakshi\_Aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sakshi_Aggarwal)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689/1 "2018-07-19T08:27:59Z")

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I have timestamp field in my data which is shown as it is in Kibana . But i want time in the given format in a particular visualisation:  
for eg. timestamp : 2018-07-19 1:00 PM  
then it should be shown that " 55 minutes ago" in time field .  
Can you help?

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689/2 "2018-07-19T21:19:55Z")

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You can use the relative date formatter:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/6/66f49adcc37e6808e98041ef6edce0fb3fe4d62b.png)

You can find this setting in Management -\> Index Patterns -\> Find field -\> click edit button right most column.

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**Author:** ![Sakshi\_Aggarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Sakshi\_Aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sakshi_Aggarwal)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689/3 "2018-07-20T05:43:57Z")

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WOW!!!! Thank You so much . Its working efficiently.  
your help is appreciated. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-timestamp-for-better-visualisation/140689/4 "2018-08-17T05:52:38Z")

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