# Timestamp format
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-format/19011
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-format/19011 "2014-07-31T18:25:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Cristian\_Falcas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cristian_Falcas)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-format/19011/1 "2014-07-31T18:25:47Z")
Hello all,
I'm using currently rsyslogd to send messages to elasticsearch and kibana
as a GUI.
Rsyslogd is sending the @timestamp in the following format:
2014-07-31T21:01:16.515922+03:00
I was wondering if elasticsearch is able to understand this format? Because
kibana sorting doesn't do anything with it. The sorting is completly random.
Should I send the timestamp in another format? Can I keep the microseconds?
Best regards,
Cristian Falcas
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-format/19011/2 "2014-08-04T09:13:49Z")
Hey,
from the top of my head, joda (the underlying library used in Elasticsearch
for date handling) only does millisecond and so does Elasticsearch. Maybe
you can break down the micro to milliseconds and try again? Also, you might
need to create your own date format, see
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Cristian Falcas [cristi.falcas@gmail.com](mailto:cristi.falcas@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm using currently rsyslogd to send messages to elasticsearch and kibana
> as a GUI.
>
> Rsyslogd is sending the @timestamp in the following format:
>
> 2014-07-31T21:01:16.515922+03:00
>
> I was wondering if elasticsearch is able to understand this format?
> Because kibana sorting doesn't do anything with it. The sorting is
> completly random.
>
> Should I send the timestamp in another format? Can I keep the microseconds?
>
> Best regards,
> Cristian Falcas
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-format/19011/3 "2017-07-06T01:11:06Z")