# Helping converting a date in format "Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:09:36 GMT" **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask a question\ **Created:** [January 9, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/helping-converting-a-date-in-format-mon-03-jan-2022-2136-gmt/2224 "2022-01-09T20:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derek\_Williamson1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@Derek\_Williamson1](https://community.parabola.io/u/Derek_Williamson1)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/helping-converting-a-date-in-format-mon-03-jan-2022-2136-gmt/2224/1 "2022-01-09T20:56:48Z")
Hi! I have looked through all of the documentation I can find, and still can’t figure out why Parabola isn’t picking up my date for formatting. The “Pull from Twilio” pulls in messages with date stamps in the format “Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:09:36 GMT” I have a Format Dates step to convert this. It will not auto-detect, so I tried using the accepted formats as “ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ”. I keep getting the same error unfortunately - “There are dates in an unknown format, try setting the old format to convert them” Any help or ideas much appreciated! Full window here: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/2X/8/8df7006a9b0dd191ec38518728a8cf220c69a229.png) ---
**Author:** ![jp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/jp/32/20_2.png) [@jp](https://community.parabola.io/u/jp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/helping-converting-a-date-in-format-mon-03-jan-2022-2136-gmt/2224/2 "2022-01-11T18:00:20Z")
Have you tried updating the starting format with a timezone of `zz` or just `z`? I think capital `ZZ` is actually for -0700, -0600, etc., and not GMT, PST, etc. Alternatively, you could also find and replace the ` GMT` with a blank result and run the Format Dates Step on the new date stamps, without the timezone.