# How to date match "January 16th 2019, 07:00:09.257"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-date-match-january-16th-2019-0709-257/164463>\
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**Created:** [January 16, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-date-match-january-16th-2019-0709-257/164463 "2019-01-16T12:31:53Z")\
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where do you which a match? in the date filter or in grok?

if it is the date filter there is a previous question with an untested solution

> [@Need a date parser for my custom date fielsd](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-a-date-parser-for-my-custom-date-fielsd/39390/2):
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> You probably need to strip away the "th" (and "nd" and "st") that can come after the day as the date filter isn't capable of ignoring it automatically. Or, specify multiple date patterns and let the filter try them all until it gets a match. Untested: date { match =\> ["name-of-your-field", "MMM dd'th' yyyy, HH:mm:ss.SSS", "MMM dd'nd' yyyy, HH:mm:ss.SSS", "MMM dd'st' yyyy, HH:mm:ss.SSS"] locale =\> "en" }

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