# Elasticsearch date format am pm
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470 "2017-08-27T08:05:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@svarup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svarup)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470/1 "2017-08-27T08:05:09Z")
In elasticsearch how to index a doc with date format 2017-08-27 01:34:15 PM
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### Author:  [@svarup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svarup)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470/2 "2017-08-27T08:51:03Z")
i think we have to store the date in 24 hours Y-m-d\TH:i:s (PHP format) format and for display, we use our programing language(PHP) to convert 24 hours to 12 hours with am or pm.
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### Author:  [@ahmadimt07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahmadimt07)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470/3 "2017-08-27T14:41:01Z")
You can refer to the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-date-format.html#custom-date-formats) for in built date format supported by ES.
Also, if none of the in built formats is suitable for you, then you can create a custom date format. It follows the Joda time date format. You can find that [here](http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-date-format-am-pm/98470/4 "2017-09-24T14:41:22Z")
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