# Pulling date from Elastic and convert it to local time zone
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 27, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345 "2019-09-27T07:00:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@saif3r](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif3r)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345/1 "2019-09-27T07:00:51Z")
Hello,
I'm using Beats to to put data onto my Elasticsearch server. All machines incluing the monitored server are based in CET timezone. In Kibana i can see the @timestamp stored in CET, but when i pull it out using Logstash and put it into a flat file, it's stored in UTC. How can i make sure that the date i pull using Logstash is also stored as CET in flat file?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345/2 "2019-09-27T13:34:07Z")
logstash and elasticsearch always store dates in UTC. Kibana converts them to the timezone of the browser.
If you are using a date filter to parse strings you can lie about what timezone the strings are in to get a LogStash::Timezone object in a timezone other than UTC.
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### Author:  [@saif3r](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif3r)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345/3 "2019-10-01T07:53:11Z")
Thanks @Badger,
So there's no easy way to convert it to a different timezone before outputting it into flat file?
If that's true, could you hint me how exactly i can 'lie' to Logstash to make sure that my output flat file will have the dates stored in CET rather than UTC?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345/4 "2019-10-01T12:39:59Z")
If the timestamps in the log are UTC and you want to store them as (say) GMT+4, then tell the date filter they are GMT-4.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-date-from-elastic-and-convert-it-to-local-time-zone/201345/5 "2019-10-29T12:40:03Z")
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