# Set @timestamp value
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-timestamp-value/91958
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-timestamp-value/91958 "2017-07-05T16:17:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Roque\_Moyano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roque_Moyano)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-timestamp-value/91958/1 "2017-07-05T16:17:58Z")
Hi , I have a situation , I need to send a lot of "old" logs to our ELK stack , I was doing some tests , and I realized that when logstash send the logs to elasticsearch it is seting the @timestamp field with the current date. So I can't use the date filter from kibana dashboard. I know that I can set another field with the old date logs , but is there any way to :
- set timestamp field with the logs date value or
- tell to kibana to search the date logs in a new field instead of @timestamp in order to use the date filter from kibana dashboard.
thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Charles.w](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charles.w)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-timestamp-value/91958/2 "2017-07-05T17:22:26Z")
Hi,
You can use [the date filter plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html) to parse the timestamp found within your logs and replace the default @timestamp value.
Best regards,
Charles Casadei.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-timestamp-value/91958/3 "2017-08-02T17:22:43Z")
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