diff --git a/esp/src/src-react/components/Logs.tsx b/esp/src/src-react/components/Logs.tsx
index a1fad7bab0d..5e697c77b55 100644
--- a/esp/src/src-react/components/Logs.tsx
+++ b/esp/src/src-react/components/Logs.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { CommandBar, ContextualMenuItemType, ICommandBarItemProps } from "@fluen
 import { GetLogsExRequest, LogaccessService, LogType, TargetAudience, WsLogaccess } from "@hpcc-js/comms";
 import { Level, scopedLogger } from "@hpcc-js/util";
 import nlsHPCC from "src/nlsHPCC";
-import { logColor, removeAllExcept, wuidToDate, wuidToTime } from "src/Utility";
+import { formatDateString, logColor, removeAllExcept, timestampToDate, wuidToDate, wuidToTime } from "src/Utility";
 import { useLogAccessInfo } from "../hooks/platform";
 import { HolyGrail } from "../layouts/HolyGrail";
 import { pushParams } from "../util/history";
@@ -133,7 +133,17 @@ export const Logs: React.FunctionComponent<LogsProps> = ({
             }
         });
         const retVal = {
-            timestamp: { label: nlsHPCC.TimeStamp, width: 140, sortable: false, },
+            timestamp: {
+                label: nlsHPCC.TimeStamp, width: 140, sortable: false,
+                formatter: ts => {
+                    if (ts) {
+                        if (ts.indexOf(":") < 0) {
+                            return timestampToDate(ts).toISOString();
+                        }
+                        return formatDateString(ts);
+                    }
+                },
+            },
             message: { label: nlsHPCC.Message, width: 600, sortable: false, },
             components: { label: nlsHPCC.ContainerName, width: 150, sortable: false },
             instance: { label: nlsHPCC.PodName, width: 150, sortable: false },
diff --git a/esp/src/src/Utility.ts b/esp/src/src/Utility.ts
index 32c0a912f59..d17b93257cb 100644
--- a/esp/src/src/Utility.ts
+++ b/esp/src/src/Utility.ts
@@ -1242,6 +1242,29 @@ export function format(labelTpl, obj) {
         .join("\n")
         ;
 }
+
+const TEN_TRILLION = 10000000000000;
+export function nanosToMillis(timestamp: number): number {
+    if (timestamp > TEN_TRILLION) {
+        return Math.round(timestamp / 1000000);
+    } else {
+        return timestamp;
+    }
+}
+
+export function timestampToDate(timestamp: number): Date {
+    const millis = nanosToMillis(timestamp);
+    return new Date(millis);
+}
+
+export function formatDateString(dateStr: string): string {
+    const matches = dateStr.match(/([0-9]{4}(?:-[0-9]{1,2})+)([T\s])((?:[0-9]{1,2}:)+[0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{1,3})(Z*)/);
+    if (matches) {
+        return `${matches[1]}T${matches[3]}${matches[4] ? matches[4] : "Z"}`;
+    }
+    return dateStr;
+}
+
 const theme = getTheme();
 const { semanticColors } = theme;