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Changing date format and find date difference in days?

dtccsundar — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:22:37 GMT

Hi ,

I want to change the date format and find difference in days from current day .

Date format i have now is ,

Timestamp

10/31/2022 1:28:20 PM

index=s sourcetype=Resources|fillnull | eval Timestamp=strftime(strptime('Timestamp',"%m/%d/%Y"),"%Y-%m-%d") | eval diff=now()-Timestamp|table Name _time Timestamp diff

Here i am not getting the diff field populated with difference in number of days.It shows as blank .The date format i expect is %Y-%m-%d for timestamp column.

Please help me to achieve this .

Re: changing date format and find date difference in days

ITWhisperer — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:54:22 GMT

In order to do arithmetic on time values they need to be in epoch form so save the epoch time returned by strptime() so you can subtract it from now()

Re: changing date format and find date difference in days

dtccsundar — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:15:15 GMT

Thank you .It worked as expected .