# Timestamp question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 4, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618 "2016-07-04T07:46:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Uros\_Meglic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/edb3f5/32.png) [@Uros\_Meglic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Uros_Meglic)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618/1 "2016-07-04T07:46:14Z")

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Hello,

I was just wondering what would be the correct setup for when the original logs that are being passed to logstash have a date time field that is all ready saved as UTC. Thats 2 hours behind local time.

I set the @timestamp from the log datetime and currenty this is what I'm using.

```
date {
                locale => "en"
                match => ["timestamp","YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]
                remove_field => ["timestamp"]
                timezone => "Europe/Vienna"
        }
```

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618/2 "2016-07-04T07:48:16Z")

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If the logs already are UTC then set `timezone => "UTC"` for the date filter.

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**Author:** ![Uros\_Meglic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/edb3f5/32.png) [@Uros\_Meglic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Uros_Meglic)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618/3 "2016-07-05T06:31:59Z")

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Thanks. Works perfectly.

Kind regards,

Uros

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-question/54618/4 "2017-07-06T04:49:35Z")

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