# TImezone in Elasticsearch logs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 2, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540 "2022-09-02T10:27:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cheshirecat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheshirecat)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/1 "2022-09-02T10:27:08Z")
Hello There!
I see that my logs for Elasticsearch have different timezone that my server.
For my server I have got set timezone:
'pią' is shortcut for 'piątek' that means 'Friday' in Polish.
My logs however got UTC timezone:
```auto
September 2, 2022 10:15:25 AM
INFO
Server
successfully reloaded changed geoip database file [/tmp/elasticsearch-12446836234446054485/geoip-databases/CVsfpe93TZqMenYYAvjJvA/GeoLite2-City.mmdb]
o.e.i.g.DatabaseNodeService
node-1
September 2, 2022 10:15:19 AM
INFO
Server
successfully reloaded changed geoip database file [/tmp/elasticsearch-12446836234446054485/geoip-databases/CVsfpe93TZqMenYYAvjJvA/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb]
o.e.i.g.DatabaseNodeService
node-1
```
Print screen:
What can I do to have same timezone for all settings, logs and indicies in my cluster?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/2 "2022-09-06T01:10:17Z")
Elasticsearch assumes that the timestamp that you are passing to it is in UTC, and has a TZ in there as needed.
I guess it comes down to how you process your events, and if you are taking this into account.
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### Author:  [@cheshirecat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheshirecat)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/3 "2022-09-06T06:55:39Z")
Thank you @warkolm for a reply.
Am I able to change timestamp to my timezone? I can't find it in docs but I have found this [post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-timestamp-timezone/28401/10). It is seven years old so I don't know will it still work.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/4 "2022-09-06T07:56:17Z")
How are you ingesting data?
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### Author:  [@cheshirecat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheshirecat)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/5 "2022-09-06T08:08:38Z")
I hope this is an answer for your question - my `logstash.conf` file looks like this:
```auto
input {
beats {
port => {{port_number_1}}
ssl_key => '/etc/logstash/es.key.pem'
ssl_certificate => '/etc/logstash/es.crt.pem'
ssl => true
host => "{{ip_address}}"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
ssl_certificate_verification => false
cacert => '/etc/logstash/elastic-stack-ca.crt'
password => "{{pass}}"
user => "elastic"
hosts => ["https://{{ip_address}}:{{port_number_2}}" ,"https://{{ip_address}}:{{port_number_2}}" ,"https://{{ip_address}}:{{port_number_2}}"]
index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{[@metadata][version]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/6 "2022-09-06T08:46:57Z")
What Beat(s)? And how are they configured?
They should be pretty smart in picking up the system TZ and adjusting, but it pays to check.
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### Author:  [@cheshirecat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheshirecat)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/7 "2022-09-06T08:49:00Z")
Beats that I use are:
- metricbeat
- filebeat
- auditbeat
- heartbeat
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-elasticsearch-logs/313540/8 "2022-10-04T08:49:23Z")
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