# My Timestamp in audit log using SYSLOG input plugin not in correct format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-timestamp-in-audit-log-using-syslog-input-plugin-not-in-correct-format/351127>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-timestamp-in-audit-log-using-syslog-input-plugin-not-in-correct-format/351127 "2024-01-16T07:47:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-timestamp-in-audit-log-using-syslog-input-plugin-not-in-correct-format/351127/10 "2024-01-19T19:07:22Z")

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I am not speaking to your use case, but in general adding the current year is not what you want. The date filter has [heuristics](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-date-and-seconds-to-odd-iso-8601-ish-timestamp/288031/2) to [guess](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-date/blob/d0ed7e3f2fd05ca6e4d32b5d4d89ddf1b6dcb2cb/src/main/java/org/logstash/filters/parser/JodaParser.java#L97) what year is applicable, but there will always be exceptions where that goes wrong.

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