# Maintain original timestamp across versions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintain-original-timestamp-across-versions/13037
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 2, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintain-original-timestamp-across-versions/13037 "2013-08-02T00:05:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@GivP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GivP)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintain-original-timestamp-across-versions/13037/1 "2013-08-02T00:05:50Z")
I have enabled automatic \_timestamp on my indexes but every time an index
is updated during a \_bulk request (or a regular update) the timestamp is
also updated. This makes sense.
I want to know if there's a way to keep the original timestamp after an
update? So we only ever see the timestamp for version 1 no matter how many
times it is updated to a new version.
I have over 4 millions indexes and bulk update in chunks of 1000 so I'd
rather not iterate through every single item to compare timestamps.
Any tips?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintain-original-timestamp-across-versions/13037/2 "2017-07-06T02:23:17Z")