# Human Readable Duration - Remove Day Format
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 24, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108 "2021-11-24T21:40:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/1 "2021-11-24T21:40:51Z")
Hi,
I would like to use the human-readable duration but report seconds, minutes and hours only. For example, I want to see 24 hours instead of 1 day.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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### Author:  [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/2 "2021-11-26T10:41:24Z")
Hi there, choose Stack Management -\> Index patterns -\> choose you index pattern -\> choose and edit your date field -\> Set format
Let me know if it helps!
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/3 "2021-11-29T00:17:11Z")
this is great when my field is a date format. I am using Duration. Is it possible to not include days?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/4 "2021-11-29T01:11:59Z")
You should able do this? That would only be in Hours and Decimals...
Not sure if that is what you want
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/5 "2021-11-29T01:24:50Z")
Hi Stephen, thanks for your reply. I would like secs, minutes and hours, but not days.
I would like to not be restricted by either, secs, mins or hours.
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/6 "2021-11-29T01:34:20Z")
I do not think what you are requesting is an option at this time.
What Visualization will you be using?
You can open a feature request against the Kibana repo in github
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/7 "2021-11-29T01:52:18Z")
there are range or lens and aggregated vis that I am using. The reason I want to avoid days is because I want to relate a day to a working day of 8 hours not 24 hours.
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/8 "2021-11-29T01:57:25Z")
> [@Matt.Wash](#):
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> there are range or lens and aggregated
I know what lens is but unclear what you mean by the others... either way no simple way to do what you want today.
Please feel free to open a feature request describing your use case if you like.
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/9 "2021-11-29T03:25:44Z")
sorry, to clarify "a range of lens" i mean data table, stacked bar, line etc. and aggregated vis (the old way using terms). I will add a feature request.
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### Author:  [@Matt.Wash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt.Wash)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/10 "2021-11-29T03:32:02Z")
> [@stephenb](#):
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> feature request against the Kibana repo in github
dumb question, but do you have link to the gitub repo, I just googled it and couldn't locate it to generate the feature request
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/11 "2021-11-29T04:48:39Z")
Sorry I should have linked it above
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/human-readable-duration-remove-day-format/290108/12 "2021-12-27T04:48:46Z")
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