# How does change the default of @timestamp?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 10, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626 "2016-12-10T17:13:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@wenhuaixiang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wenhuaixiang)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626/1 "2016-12-10T17:13:23Z")
The timezone of Linux system is +0800,but the timezone of Logstash is +0000.How can I change the logstash timezone?
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### Author:  [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626/2 "2016-12-10T21:38:10Z")
You can use logstash date filter [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html)
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626/3 "2016-12-10T22:07:51Z")
The timezone of `@timestamp` is always UTC and cannot be changed to UTC+8 or anything else.
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### Author:  [@wenhuaixiang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wenhuaixiang)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626/4 "2016-12-11T01:56:31Z")
THK a lot.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-change-the-default-of-timestamp/68626/5 "2017-01-08T01:56:34Z")
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