# Kibana - Using Controls for date field drop down **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 11, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-using-controls-for-date-field-drop-down/160353 "2018-12-11T11:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![igour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igour/32/38679_2.png) [@igour](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/igour)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-using-controls-for-date-field-drop-down/160353/1 "2018-12-11T11:05:55Z")
Team, I was using Kibana control for my visualization part and wanted to use my date field for the further filter on the final dashboard. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/3/935f71c1a21892d2784cc9f0530d661901d4a6fc.png) Currently, if I used my date field in drop down I was able to see my date in epoch only, Is there any way that I can see this date into "YYYY-MM-DD" or "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss" format instead of epoch in the Kibana dashboard UI. ---
**Author:** ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-using-controls-for-date-field-drop-down/160353/2 "2018-12-11T22:32:28Z")
Hi, it looks like the Elasticsearch mapping for this epoch field may be numeric, instead of of date. Could you check the mappings and confirm? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-using-controls-for-date-field-drop-down/160353/3 "2019-01-08T22:38:26Z")
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