# How do I set Kibana to display the time using the 24 hour clock?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 25, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393 "2017-08-25T15:30:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimWard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timward/32/19574_2.png) [@TimWard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWard)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/1 "2017-08-25T15:30:08Z")

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Specifically the tooltip in the time series Visual Builder?

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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:** [August 26, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/2 "2017-08-26T10:07:05Z")

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Do you mean you want to use 24 hour representation, eg 1700, instead of 5pm?

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**Author:** ![TimWard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timward/32/19574_2.png) [@TimWard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWard)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/3 "2017-08-29T08:19:51Z")

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Yes.

Once Upon A Time one would simply set this in the Windows control panel and properly behaved applications would pick it up and obey it, but with all the modern "improvements", such as browser-based applications, that seems to be too much to hope for these days ☹

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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:** [August 29, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/4 "2017-08-29T08:44:25Z")

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There is `dateFormat:scaled` under the advanced settings section that would do it.

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**Author:** ![TimWard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timward/32/19574_2.png) [@TimWard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWard)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/5 "2017-08-30T08:31:04Z")

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Every entry in dateFormat and dateFormat:scaled uses HH. In particular dateFormat is

"MMMM Do YYYY, HH:mm:ss.SSS"

but the tooltips in the time series Visual Builder say things like

"Aug 24, 2017 9:00:00 PM"

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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:** [September 27, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-set-kibana-to-display-the-time-using-the-24-hour-clock/98393/6 "2017-09-27T08:31:11Z")

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