# Write Dataframe to ElasticSearch with time-stamp column

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-dataframe-to-elasticsearch-with-time-stamp-column/33939>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-dataframe-to-elasticsearch-with-time-stamp-column/33939 "2015-11-05T23:04:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![davinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@davinder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davinder)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-dataframe-to-elasticsearch-with-time-stamp-column/33939/1 "2015-11-05T23:04:18Z")

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To save dataframe to ElasticSearch with timestamp column.however when it is saved into elasticsearch, timestamp column saved as long, which Kibana does not recongize long timestamp column. How can i make sure timestamp column remains timestamp in ES ?

I am using Spark 1.4 with Scala.

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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 5, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/write-dataframe-to-elasticsearch-with-time-stamp-column/33939/2 "2017-07-05T23:40:15Z")

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