# How to return current date & time in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 14, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990 "2016-08-14T22:27:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![prabhuramsoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@prabhuramsoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhuramsoft)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990/1 "2016-08-14T22:27:52Z")

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in Visualation - Datatable column, am trying to display the current date & time at run time.  
How to do that any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990/2 "2016-08-16T16:22:10Z")

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I can't think a straightforward way to do this currently. A scripted field may be able grab the current time and be used for your column data, but currently kibana only supports lucene expressions which aren't able to grab the current time. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6529](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6529) and [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-scripting-painless.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-scripting-painless.html) may eventually be able to help but this isn't available to use in Kibana yet.

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**Author:** ![prabhuramsoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@prabhuramsoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhuramsoft)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990/3 "2016-08-31T17:38:38Z")

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I got it by enabling groovy script & using Json input field by passing below to get CurentDate time milliseconds atleast

**{"script":"new Date().getTime()", "lang":"groovy"}**

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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, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-current-date-time-in-kibana/57990/4 "2017-07-06T13:39:50Z")

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