# Time zone issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-zone-issue/111665>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-zone-issue/111665 "2017-12-14T00:05:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lukekingbru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukekingbru/32/25254_2.png) [@lukekingbru](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukekingbru)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-zone-issue/111665/1 "2017-12-14T00:05:18Z")

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Hi,

I need to insert some date type time which is not in UTC time. Is that possible to do that  
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-zone-issue/111665/2 "2017-12-14T00:09:29Z")

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Yes Elasticsearch will accept that. It will convert it into UTC though, so you may want to use Logstash to normalise it.

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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:** [January 11, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-zone-issue/111665/3 "2018-01-11T00:10:09Z")

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