# Kibana date issues?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687 "2018-10-23T21:34:15Z")
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### Author: ![motts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@motts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/motts)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687/1 "2018-10-23T21:34:15Z")

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Hello,

I have some dates entered into ES, but when they are queried in Kibana, I get some funky numbers representing the dates. I am trying to filter out all the dates but October in this case, but can't seem to do that. Here is a sample

```
October 9th 2018, 13:11:22.519 (has this query)

{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "EventTime": {
        "query": 1539105082519,
        "type": "phrase"
      }
    }
  }
}

```

In this example, I cannot type "EventTime:October\*" for instance to get only October to show. The windows events were imported from a .evtx file and not in real time, otherwise I'd use that time it got into ES.

Any help would be appreciated

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687/2 "2018-10-24T09:52:28Z")

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> [@motts](#):
>
> I get some funky numbers representing the dates

What sort of numbers?  
How is the `EventTime` field mapped?

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### Author: ![motts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@motts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/motts)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687/3 "2018-10-24T13:07:31Z")

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The query number represents the date. The "EventTime" field is set up as a date field, according to kibana.

Here is a snip of that

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/9/0963de32bf1bbc261682b224d930aa04c7677609.png)

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### Author: ![motts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@motts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/motts)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687/4 "2018-10-24T20:15:13Z")

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I found a workaround for the moment. I changed the Index Pattern to look at the EventTime field for Time Based events instead of the @timestamp field.

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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: [November 21, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-date-issues/153687/5 "2018-11-21T20:15:16Z")

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