# Showing a timestamp of 0 as 0 and not 1970
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470 "2017-08-02T07:32:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tomer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomer)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470/1 "2017-08-02T07:32:43Z")
Hi, I have a field that I read as a time field, sometimes the time that is given is " " and is converted to "0" which is in Epoch time 1970. I have a requirement to keep the field as 0 or " " (Rather " " ) and not translate it to epoch. I will be happy for any solution.
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### Author:  [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470/2 "2017-08-02T16:25:45Z")
Are you saying that it is converted to 0 inside Kibana or inside the Elasticsearch index?
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### Author:  [@tomer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomer)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470/3 "2017-08-24T10:36:59Z")
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I fixed it by making the Logstash not to read it as a date figure.
To your question: inside the ES index.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2017, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-timestamp-of-0-as-0-and-not-1970/95470/4 "2017-09-21T10:37:01Z")
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