# @timestamp doesn't match with my computer times

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797 "2017-07-12T11:15:22Z")
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### Author: ![Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thanadol_Thadasade)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797/1 "2017-07-12T11:15:22Z")

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Hi, I having a problem with times. because this output doesn't match with my computer times.  
I used **ctx.trigger.scheduled\_time** to print times.  
this output

> 2017-07-12T11:11:38.878Z

and time at my computer

> 2017-07-12 18:11:38

and i live at asia/bangkok UTC +07.00

thanks.

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### Author: ![Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thanadol_Thadasade)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797/2 "2017-07-13T06:36:50Z")

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This **@timestamp** input data by metricbeat.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/1/51ec4bdf4097b96202a4e51644f6a8a35c980ae8.png)

And this times on my computer

> 11:55:47

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### Author: ![Rory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rory)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797/3 "2017-07-14T16:56:09Z")

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From what I know, ElasticSearch stores in **@timestamp** the UTC time of when the document was indexed. Why do you want the @timestamp value to be the same as your local time?

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### Author: ![Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Thanadol\_Thadasade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thanadol_Thadasade)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797/4 "2017-07-15T19:10:40Z")

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Thanks for reply @Rory .  
Because it will be easy to check and we're familiar with local time rather than UTC.

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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: [August 12, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-doesnt-match-with-my-computer-times/92797/5 "2017-08-12T19:10:55Z")

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