# Set default time field on ingest\_timestamp

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-default-time-field-on-ingest-timestamp/260184>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ingest-pipeline\
**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-default-time-field-on-ingest-timestamp/260184 "2021-01-05T09:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pat7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pat7/32/81768_2.png) [@pat7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pat7)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-default-time-field-on-ingest-timestamp/260184/1 "2021-01-05T09:54:55Z")

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hi! i'm adding (w/ an ingest pipeline) an ingest\_timestamp to each document on my index. poorly I cannot use the kibana date picker on that data. how is it possible to set the default time field on an ingest\_timestamp? I tried a few thigs w/ the date format on the filed but nothing solved the issue so far. can you help me? thx pat

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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:** [February 2, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-default-time-field-on-ingest-timestamp/260184/2 "2021-02-02T09:55:17Z")

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