# Kibana 3 datetime format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 10, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365 "2016-02-10T10:23:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![derp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@derp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/derp)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365/1 "2016-02-10T10:23:04Z")

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Would someone mind clarifying this basic question? Using Kibana 3 I have the timestamp returned from the API as

```
2016-02-07T04:00:54.090Z

```

It looks like a standard ISO 8601 date format except the `.090` is throwing me off. What does this represent?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365/2 "2016-02-10T14:19:07Z")

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Milliseconds.

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**Author:** ![derp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@derp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/derp)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365/3 "2016-02-10T14:22:35Z")

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Thankyou.

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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, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-datetime-format/41365/4 "2017-07-06T14:02:39Z")

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