# Odd timestamp in syslog gives formatting error in ingest pipeline

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-timestamp-in-syslog-gives-formatting-error-in-ingest-pipeline/95894>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-timestamp-in-syslog-gives-formatting-error-in-ingest-pipeline/95894 "2017-08-04T14:08:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![abd.wsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@abd.wsu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abd.wsu)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-timestamp-in-syslog-gives-formatting-error-in-ingest-pipeline/95894/1 "2017-08-04T14:08:39Z")

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Hello,

The timestamp in my syslog has two spaces between month and day. So my ingets pipeline works fine for days from 10 - 31, but fails for dates 1 - 9. Since these are single dates and not two digits.  
Is there anyway to fix this?

Here's an example

The timestamp in my syslog is

`Aug 4 09:06:01 hostname [25831]: syslog data`

As you can see there are two spaces between Aug and 4 and that's giving me a pasring error. But this works fine once it hits Aug 10.

here's the date processor in my pipeline

```
  {
    "date": {
      "field": "timestamp",
      "formats": [
        "MMM dd HH:mm:ss"
      ],
      "timezone": "America/Chicago"
    }
  },

```

This is the error in my failed index

`Invalid format: \"Aug 4 09:06:01\" is malformed at \" 4 09:06:01`

Right now, i am planning to change the time format in the syslog to something more suitable but wanted to check if there's a work around for this.

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**Author:** ![abd.wsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@abd.wsu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abd.wsu)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-timestamp-in-syslog-gives-formatting-error-in-ingest-pipeline/95894/2 "2017-08-08T18:38:43Z")

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I was able to split my timestamp into MONTH, MONTHDAY and then use set processor to add them back together to get the timestamp.

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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:** [September 5, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-timestamp-in-syslog-gives-formatting-error-in-ingest-pipeline/95894/3 "2017-09-05T18:38:50Z")

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