# Parse date field with format epoch\_millis in a specific time zone

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis-in-a-specific-time-zone/241956>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis-in-a-specific-time-zone/241956 "2020-07-21T02:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![kosuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@kosuke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kosuke)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis-in-a-specific-time-zone/241956/1 "2020-07-21T02:08:41Z")

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Hi all,

I'm using 7.4 for Elasticsearch and Kibana.

When I zoom in a few seconds scale in line visualization, I found the following error message:

> failed to parse date field [-577961999930] with format [epoch\_millis]

From the previous topic, I learned that it can be fixed by changing from "Browser" to "UTC" in Kibana Advanced Settings.  
[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis/202000](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis/202000)

It actually works, but I'd like to use different time zone from UTC. Would you know hot to solve it ?

Thank you for your help.  
Kosuke

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**Author:** ![lukeelmers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukeelmers/32/35230_2.png) [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis-in-a-specific-time-zone/241956/2 "2020-07-24T21:31:13Z")

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Hi @kosuke, I'm not sure what your browser time zone is, but it sounds like you might be running into [this known issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/60828) with epoch\_millis fields. Feel free to leave a 👍 on the original comment of that issue -- this helps the team prioritize bugfixes.

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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:** [August 21, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-date-field-with-format-epoch-millis-in-a-specific-time-zone/241956/3 "2020-08-21T21:31:18Z")

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