# How to set @timestamp timezone?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-timestamp-timezone/28401>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-timestamp-timezone/28401 "2015-09-01T04:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jack6liu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jack6liu/32/6577_2.png) [@jack6liu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jack6liu)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-timestamp-timezone/28401/16 "2015-12-11T06:52:56Z")

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A newbie to ELK stack. And met such issue also.

From a system admin/ user view, I should say this is a workaroud, and everything should goes perfect if the logstash just add the supporting to customize the timezone .

Why not add this simple feature? But specify such a complex workaround??

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