# Alerts time format

**URL:** <https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29>\
**Category:** Server Administration\
**Created:** [May 7, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29 "2019-05-07T12:50:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Joao\_Ferreira](https://community.simple-help.com/user_avatar/community.simple-help.com/joao_ferreira/32/512_2.png) [@Joao\_Ferreira](https://community.simple-help.com/u/Joao_Ferreira)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29/1 "2019-05-07T12:50:06Z")

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Hi! After setting up the alert for Offline servers warnings, all works great besides the fact that from the time field ${timeMS} we receive Time: 1557209253996, We’d like to have minutes and seconds too.  
Is there anything we are missing?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Antony](https://community.simple-help.com/user_avatar/community.simple-help.com/antony/32/636_2.png) [@Antony](https://community.simple-help.com/u/Antony)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29/2 "2019-05-24T15:02:35Z")

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Hi Joao, thanks for coming to the community and posting 🙂

${timeMS} is actually the time of the event in milliseconds so would include accuracy down beyond the second level although I appreciate it is not necessarily easy to convert this to a real world time.

${date} and ${time} are are alternatives that give you a more human readable format.

${date} would I think give you something like:

24/05/19

and ${time} would give you (hours:mins:seconds):

16:01:13

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**Author:** ![Joao\_Ferreira](https://community.simple-help.com/user_avatar/community.simple-help.com/joao_ferreira/32/512_2.png) [@Joao\_Ferreira](https://community.simple-help.com/u/Joao_Ferreira)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29/3 "2019-05-24T15:25:35Z")

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Thanks! That explained it! Got it done.  
JP

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**Author:** ![Antony](https://community.simple-help.com/user_avatar/community.simple-help.com/antony/32/636_2.png) [@Antony](https://community.simple-help.com/u/Antony)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/alerts-time-format/29/4 "2019-05-24T15:28:08Z")

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Awesome 🙂 if there are any variables you think would be useful that we don’t have then let us know!