# Timelion & Unix Timestamp
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293 "2019-04-17T12:47:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Barber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andy_Barber)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/1 "2019-04-17T12:47:07Z")
Hi All, Firstly I am new to ELK and Kibana in general so I don't know what I don't know. I have some data where I have a unix timestamp that I would like to sue as the timefield in a timelion visual should timelion be able to sue this as the time field?
thanks in advance
Andy
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/2 "2019-04-17T13:48:29Z")
Hi Andy
About using epoch time in Timelion kibana - if it is mapped as a date field it will work - regardless of
the input form - be it milliseconds epochs or an ISO formatted string.
Cheers,
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Barber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andy_Barber)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/3 "2019-04-17T14:13:05Z")
cheers my mapping is set to below, so from your description it should all be fine for timelion
"LastChangedAt": {
"type": "date",
"format": "epoch\_millis"
}
cheers Andy
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/4 "2019-04-17T14:15:21Z")
Yes, in this case you should be able to use it for Timelion. Are you not able to use it ? Can you please provide more details- like steps , logs, screenshots etc...
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Barber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andy_Barber)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/5 "2019-04-26T08:26:31Z")
thanks for the help and info, I was experiencing some issues but I think it was case sensitive AND in my query 🙂 all work now as expected. thanks again Andy
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/6 "2019-05-21T22:44:10Z")
Glad it worked..
Cheers
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-unix-timestamp/177293/7 "2019-06-18T22:54:35Z")
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