# Timestamps precision in beats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamps-precision-in-beats/154646>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 30, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamps-precision-in-beats/154646 "2018-10-30T12:00:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamps-precision-in-beats/154646/9 "2018-11-22T11:56:38Z")

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Hi @George_Sovetov,

Take a look to [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-field-timestamp-with-current-time/59862). As the events will probably have already a `@timestamp` logstash won't set it to its current time, but you can use the ruby scripting filter to do whatever you want.

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