# Use of date filter plugin - Match & timezone parameters
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-of-date-filter-plugin-match-timezone-parameters/26397
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 28, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-of-date-filter-plugin-match-timezone-parameters/26397 "2015-07-28T08:12:09Z")
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### Author:  [@nguafogu78](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nguafogu78)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-of-date-filter-plugin-match-timezone-parameters/26397/1 "2015-07-28T08:12:09Z")
Hi,
I'd like to have some complementary informations regarding the use of the date plugin. I'm unable to force the timezone of a date to be at CET time. Can someone tell me which value of the timezone parameter should I use to recover the correct time format ?
For example : entry is Jul 28 09:33:40. I want this output : 2015-07-28T07:33:40.000Z
I managed once to have another timezone but it was for Los Angeles and it was weird (2015-07-28T16:33:40.000Z).
Here's the configuration:
date {
match =\> ["timestamp\_orig", "MMM dd HH:mm:ss", "MMM d HH:mm:ss", "ISO8601"]
timezone =\> "CET" # I used Europe/Paris, Europe/Berlin but all failed
locale =\> "en"
target =\> ["date"]
}
Another intel is I'mm using Logstash 1.4.2.
Does Logstash 1.4.2 follow the values from the following web page [http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/timezones.html](http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/timezones.html) ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-of-date-filter-plugin-match-timezone-parameters/26397/2 "2017-07-06T05:33:40Z")