# Elasticsearch kibana time issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 22, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878 "2015-08-22T16:28:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![achan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@achan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/achan)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878/1 "2015-08-22T16:28:25Z")

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I am having strange problem with a time stamp field. the field is called tme.  
the document was loaded via logstash. I filtered the field doing the following.

```
 date {
    match => ["tme", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"]
    timezone => "America/New_York"
    target => "@timestamp"
}

```

I was looking at the document in elasticsearch-head.  
the value is

```
"tme": "2015-08-22T08:27:08",

```

however, when i view the document in kibana, the field is different.

```
tme	August 22nd 2015, 04:27:08.000

```

Is there a reason why this is happening?

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878/2 "2015-08-22T23:45:27Z")

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In Elasticsearch dates are stored in UTC (see [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#date)), while Kibana displays dates using the timezone set by your browser/OS. We are tracking an issue to add global timezone support directly in Kibana: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1600](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1600)

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**Author:** ![achan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@achan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/achan)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878/3 "2015-08-24T00:46:36Z")

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Hi,  
thanks for the quick response. I will be monitoring that issue .

Alex Chan

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-kibana-time-issue/27878/4 "2017-07-06T14:14:20Z")

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