# Filebeat 6.2.1 system module does not convert timestamp with timezone

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-2-1-system-module-does-not-convert-timestamp-with-timezone/119668>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 13, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-2-1-system-module-does-not-convert-timestamp-with-timezone/119668 "2018-02-13T15:55:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-2-1-system-module-does-not-convert-timestamp-with-timezone/119668/2 "2018-02-13T18:02:46Z")

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The way the convert\_timezone feature works is by installing an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline to do this conversion. Unfortunately, if a previous ingest pipeline already exists, filebeat will not update it with the required changes to make convert\_timezone work.

You need to delete the existing pipeline manually and restart filebeat:

```
curl -XDELETE 'http://elasticsearch:9200/_ingest/pipeline/filebeat-*'
```

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