# Help on date filter plugin to parse 5/24/2016 6:10:20 AM

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578 "2016-07-02T10:50:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![tianlinzx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@tianlinzx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tianlinzx)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578/1 "2016-07-02T10:50:35Z")

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I tried to use date plugin to parase date as 5/24/2016 6:10:20 AM and 5/24/2016 1:00:15 AM.  
My configuration is as below. but it doesn't work. Could anyone help me?

date {  
match =\> ["ACS\_Timestamp", "M d YYYY H:mm:ss a","ISO8601"]  
target =\>"@timestamp"  
}

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578/2 "2016-07-03T22:50:36Z")

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It's literal, so you need to include things like the `/`.

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578/3 "2016-11-16T04:40:52Z")

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Have you solved your problems ? i have the same problome

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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, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-date-filter-plugin-to-parse-5-24-2016-6-10-20-am/54578/4 "2017-07-06T04:30:33Z")

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