# How to change time zone from Zulu

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912 "2015-06-18T12:56:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![elk\_2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elk\_2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk_2015)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/1 "2015-06-18T12:56:04Z")

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hi,  
Below is the source field value in kibana.  
\_source: “Tue Jun 16 2015 07:00:57 [0x80e00173][network][error] : tid(2559): TCP connection attempt refused from 10.255.215.xxx to 10.255.215.xxx port xxxx” should have @timestamp “2015-06-16T07:00:57.000Z”, rather than “2015-06-16T11:00:57.000Z” (Z stands for Zulu time, aka UTC/GTM). When Kabana display @timestamp, it then converted it to local timezone (local host timezone)…

I still think @timestamp field was not populated correctly w.r.t time zone. I think data time in log is UTC based. So the raw value of @timestamp field should be the same as in log.

How to change time zone from Zulu. Appreciate the quick response.

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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:** [June 18, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/2 "2015-06-18T22:18:36Z")

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I assume you are using Logstash?  
Are you overwriting @timestamp with the value from the log?

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**Author:** ![elk\_2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elk\_2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk_2015)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/3 "2015-06-19T11:33:28Z")

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hi,  
Yes, I am using logstash. yes, I am overwriting the value from the log as I need kibana to display the log time, but not current local time. Can you please provide input here. Below is the code i use.  
date{ match =\> ["Log\_timestamp" , "E MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss"]  
target =\> "@timestamp"  
"locale" =\> "en" }

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**Author:** ![elk\_2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elk\_2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk_2015)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/4 "2015-06-22T11:49:23Z")

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Hi,  
Any response to the query is greatly appreciated.  
~ELK User

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/5 "2015-06-22T13:43:48Z")

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If you want the [date filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html) to consider parsed timestamps to be UTC rather than the system's local timezone, set the `timezone` parameter to "UTC".

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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, 12:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-time-zone-from-zulu/23912/6 "2017-07-06T00:06:10Z")

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