# Filter date (easy question)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 23, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668 "2016-08-23T10:29:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Csuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@Kevin\_Csuka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kevin_Csuka)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668/1 "2016-08-23T10:29:34Z")

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Struggling a bit to filter the date and time correctly.

The log file contains  
` date time action protocol
2016-08-23 11:53:38 ALLOW TCP `

My logstash filter config is as follows:  
`
filter {
csv {
columns => ["datess", "timess", "action", "protocol"]
separator => " "
}	
date {
match => ["datess", "YYYY-MM-dd", "HH:mm:ss"]
target => "@timestamp"
timezone => "Europe/Amsterdam"
}}
`

But the @timestamp is not showing the correct date as it should.  
` "@timestamp" => "2016-08-22T22:00:00.000Z", `

What is the correct date setting?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668/2 "2016-08-23T10:53:30Z")

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You need to merge the `datess` and `timess` fields into a single field (using the `add_field` option of the csv filter, for example).

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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Csuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@Kevin\_Csuka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kevin_Csuka)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668/3 "2016-08-23T11:36:23Z")

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Got it.  
` add_field => { "daytimes" => "%{datess}%{timess}" } `

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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, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-date-easy-question/58668/4 "2017-07-06T04:42:03Z")

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