# How to change Date format from YYYY-MM-DD to DD/MMM/YYYY

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-date-format-from-yyyy-mm-dd-to-dd-mmm-yyyy/132569>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 19, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-date-format-from-yyyy-mm-dd-to-dd-mmm-yyyy/132569 "2018-05-19T12:50:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-date-format-from-yyyy-mm-dd-to-dd-mmm-yyyy/132569/2 "2018-05-19T14:40:54Z")

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```
  mutate { add_field => { "[date1]" => "2018-05-19" } }
  ruby { code => "event.set('date2', Date.strptime(event.get('[date1]'), '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%d/%b/%Y'))" }

```

does it. Error handling left as an exercise for the reader.

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