# How sort by date/time on Kibana Discover

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-sort-by-date-time-on-kibana-discover/126804
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 4, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-sort-by-date-time-on-kibana-discover/126804 "2018-04-04T18:36:08Z")
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### Author: ![Neal\_Walters](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/neal_walters/32/29581_2.png) [@Neal\_Walters](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Neal_Walters)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-sort-by-date-time-on-kibana-discover/126804/16 "2018-04-06T16:48:46Z")

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Well, "I'll be switched" (as they used to say).

If I create an index pattern on "local-neal-test-kibananew4a-_", it works.  
I was using an index pattern on "local-neal-_" it doesn't, even though all the data is displayed. I presume that's because not all messages in local-neal-\* have the exact same type.

When I use the management tab to create the index pattern: local-neal-test-kibananew4a-\*  
it pops up the "Time Filter field name" box":

![Kibana_Create_IndexPatternSpecific](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/0/e089e51ed56361ecf3f9a9036f35f4a066c02dd4.jpg)

I had never seen that before. I guess I need to read up on what index patterns really do.  
I thought Kibana would be super user-friendly, but that are apparently tricks to be learned.

We have naming standards for our indexes. What I was hoping to do was watch the "trace" of my business process across different indexes and be able to get them in date/time sequence, since they all had the same createdDate field. Apparently this won't work??

Neal

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