# How to customize format of date histogram in Kibana table visualization

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-customize-format-of-date-histogram-in-kibana-table-visualization/82817
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-customize-format-of-date-histogram-in-kibana-table-visualization/82817 "2017-04-19T05:19:14Z")
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#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-customize-format-of-date-histogram-in-kibana-table-visualization/82817/3 "2017-04-20T08:07:54Z")

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Hi @cjcenizal nice to see you too 🙂 , and I am still using that username 😉

I have tried your solution and used `Date` type instead of `String`. and getting an error. Posted here [Scripted date field returns Invalid date](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-date-field-returns-invalid-date/82980)

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