# Syslog date in ingest node pipeline ahead

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345 "2021-07-22T06:33:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![hermlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@hermlam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hermlam)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345/1 "2021-07-22T06:33:56Z")

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Hi,

I am experiencing a strange thing with the date in the syslog log in filebeat. I am using the default ingest node pipeline (logs-system.syslog-0.12.7) which creates a new timestamp based on the system.syslog.timestamp. But that new timestamp is 2 hours ahead (something with UTC?). So an event is visible in Kibana 2 hours after it occurred. Kibana settings are default, so date is browser dependend.

Thanks,

Herman

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345/2 "2021-07-22T09:23:14Z")

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Management -\> Kibana -\> Advanced Settings -\> Type `tz` in the search box if you want to find it quickly. Maybe that helps?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/1695a94d387faa7626c8bf689a78ff208f00e154.png)

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**Author:** ![hermlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@hermlam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hermlam)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345/3 "2021-07-22T11:24:44Z")

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Hi Mario,

Thanks for your answer.

But this doesn’t help, my settings are default, so this one has already ‘browser’.

Herman

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**Author:** ![hermlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@hermlam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hermlam)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345/4 "2021-08-05T09:39:07Z")

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I think I found the answer. When changing the timezone in my Syslog server after the agent is enrolled the old time will appear in the logs.  
Unenroll and re-enroll of the agent will solve the problem.

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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:** [September 2, 2021, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-date-in-ingest-node-pipeline-ahead/279345/5 "2021-09-02T11:39:59Z")

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