# Why is my Logstash date plugin return PM as AM?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-logstash-date-plugin-return-pm-as-am/125434
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 24, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-logstash-date-plugin-return-pm-as-am/125434 "2018-03-24T09:36:22Z")
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### Author:  [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-logstash-date-plugin-return-pm-as-am/125434/1 "2018-03-24T09:36:22Z")
Hi,
I am using ELK GA 5.0.0. I am trying to parse my date `2018-03-18 01:44:25 PM`. I am expecting `01 PM` as `13` in 24 hr format in @timestamp field. Below is the config.
```
input {
generator {
message => "2018-03-18 01:44:25 PM"
count => 1
}
}
filter {
grok{
match => { "message" => "%{GREEDYDATA:mydate}" }
}
date {
match => ["mydate", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:SS aa"]
timezone => "GMT"
target => "@timestamp"
}
}
output{
stdout{ codec => json }
}
```
it returns;
```
{"sequence":0,"mydate":"2018-03-18 01:44:25 PM","@timestamp":"2018-03-18T01:44:00.250Z","@version":"1","host":"iflyresdev1","message":"2018-03-18 01:44:25 PM"}
```
see @timestamp":"2018-03-18T **01** :44:00.250Z here, which means the date is parsed as **01 AM**. How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-logstash-date-plugin-return-pm-as-am/125434/2 "2018-03-24T09:46:07Z")
I tried `yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss aa` and it works.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-logstash-date-plugin-return-pm-as-am/125434/3 "2018-04-21T09:46:16Z")
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