# Setting timezone for JSON Input

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-timezone-for-json-input/135806>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-timezone-for-json-input/135806 "2018-06-13T23:00:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kevin854](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kevin854](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kevin854)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-timezone-for-json-input/135806/1 "2018-06-13T23:00:29Z")

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The following script works as a JSON Input  
{  
"script": {  
"inline": "Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(); long end = today.getTimeInMillis(); Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.set(Calendar.DAY\_OF\_MONTH, 1); cal.set(Calendar.HOUR\_OF\_DAY, 0); cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE); cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND); cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND); long start = cal.getTimeInMillis(); if (doc['i.Transaction Date'].date.getMillis()\>= start) { return doc['i.Sales'].value; } return 0;",  
"lang": "painless"  
}  
}

But once I add timezone:  
{  
"script": {  
"inline": "TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"); Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone); long end = today.getTimeInMillis(); Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone); cal.set(Calendar.DAY\_OF\_MONTH, 1); cal.set(Calendar.HOUR\_OF\_DAY, 0); cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE); cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND); cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND); long start = cal.getTimeInMillis(); if (doc['i.Transaction Date'].date.getMillis() \<= end && doc['i.Transaction Date'].date.getMillis()\>= start) { return doc['i.Sales'].value; } return 0;",  
"lang": "painless"  
}  
}  
It doesn't run.

However, both scripts execute as Scripted Fields.

Any ideas?

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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:** [July 11, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-timezone-for-json-input/135806/2 "2018-07-11T23:11:57Z")

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