# Pattern for Specific Date and Time format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pattern-for-specific-date-and-time-format/184165>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pattern-for-specific-date-and-time-format/184165 "2019-06-04T11:43:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Wilks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f475e1/32.png) [@Wilks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wilks)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pattern-for-specific-date-and-time-format/184165/1 "2019-06-04T11:43:05Z")

</div>

Hi,  
I am fairly new to logtstash I am trying to find the correct Date pattern to successfully parse out the date format of this log type but I cant seem to get it to parse properly. I am guessing its something simple but I am not exactly sure....also how does one escape a Back Slash?? is it just done with another back slash?  
 ![00%20AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/c/8c470bb8be7229009656d86df5a81e500f4a7c69.png)

\"%{YEAR}-%{MONTHNUM}-%{MONTHDAY}[T]%{HOUR}:?%{MINUTE}(?::?%{SECOND})?%{ISO8601\_TIMEZONE}?\",\"

Thanks

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pattern-for-specific-date-and-time-format/184165/2 "2019-06-04T18:17:58Z")

</div>

If your field literally has \" at each end then

```
    mutate { add_field => { "ts" => '\"2019-05-30 18:53:55\"' } }
    date { match => ["ts", "'\"'YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'\"'"] }

```

would work.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pattern-for-specific-date-and-time-format/184165/3 "2019-07-02T18:25:20Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.