Currently it is possible to migrate an existing data stream to a time series data stream.
This is done by updating the index template that created the data stream. 
Then after a rollover the data stream is a time series data stream. 

Via a similar way it should be possible to change time series data stream back 
to a regular data stream. Currently when changing the `index.mode` setting
on an index template from `time_series` to `standard` (or removing the setting)
results in a validation error.
server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStream.java
import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
import org.elasticsearch.common.time.DateFormatter;
import org.elasticsearch.core.Nullable;
import org.elasticsearch.core.Tuple;
import org.elasticsearch.index.Index;
import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexMode;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DateFieldMapper;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ConstructingObjectParser;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ParseField;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ToXContentObject;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.function.LongSupplier;
public final class DataStream implements SimpleDiffable<DataStream>, ToXContentObject {