# Timestamp not taking from logs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736 "2018-07-19T13:16:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@harish.sundharam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harish.sundharam)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/1 "2018-07-19T13:16:00Z")
I use to copy logs from server to local machine and I mapped log path as a local path in logstah.conf.
Now i can able to see indexes and the log has been updated in kibana successfully, but the issue here is in Kibana its showing timestamp as my local time stamp but I want to use a timestamp which written inside my log file. Is there any way to pick timestamp from log file? Please helps me with this.
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/2 "2018-07-19T20:47:29Z")
Can do, there's two options:
1. turn off date formatting. Management -\> Index management -\> find the date field -\> click the edit icon on the rightmost column, select format as "string"
2. change the configured timezone. Management -\> advanced settings -\> dateFormat:tz
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### Author:  [@harish.sundharam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harish.sundharam)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/3 "2018-07-20T06:43:42Z")
I did option one but not difference still it showing timestamp when the logs moved to my local folder not the one written inside log.
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### Author:  [@vinu89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinu89)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/4 "2018-07-20T08:51:07Z")
In the configuration file you can match the date which is inside the file and remove the timestamp field
for e.g
filter {
date {
match =\> ["timestamp", " **dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss**"]
remove\_field =\> ["timestamp"]
}
}
you have to specify the time field inside the log file.Please refer
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-date.html)
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/5 "2018-07-20T20:38:05Z")
Thumbs up to ^. I'd check to make sure where this is happening, it looks like something at the ingest layer may be parsing the timezone. If you take a look at the raw json in your index `curl -XGET evbooking-2018.07.09/_search` you can see what it looks like without Kibana in the way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-not-taking-from-logs/140736/6 "2018-08-17T20:38:10Z")
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