https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-a-timestamp-that-is-in-brackets/m-p/97588#M20334 <P>If the timestamp is detected, it will ignore them, simply because at index time the timestamp is internally converted to an epoch time (in seconds) and displayed in the timezone of your search-head / project.</P> <P>If you want to manually extract the timestamp at search time, like with a field extraction, you can parse it as you want.</P> <P>example</P> <P><CODE>| rex field=mytimestamp mode=sed "/s/\[\]//g" | table mytimestamp</CODE></P> <P>or</P> <P><CODE>| rex field=_raw "\[(?&lt; mytimestamp &gt;.*)\]" | table mytimestamp</CODE></P> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:21:21 GMT yannK 2013-01-24T02:21:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-a-timestamp-that-is-in-brackets/m-p/97587#M20333 <P>Hi,</P> <P>How would I set the timestamp for a feed that starts with the timestamp in brackets? How do I tell it to ignore the brackets on each end?</P> <P>[Tue Dec 18 18:42:31 2012]</P> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:02:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-a-timestamp-that-is-in-brackets/m-p/97587#M20333 a212830 2013-01-24T02:02:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-a-timestamp-that-is-in-brackets/m-p/97588#M20334 <P>If the timestamp is detected, it will ignore them, simply because at index time the timestamp is internally converted to an epoch time (in seconds) and displayed in the timezone of your search-head / project.</P> <P>If you want to manually extract the timestamp at search time, like with a field extraction, you can parse it as you want.</P> <P>example</P> <P><CODE>| rex field=mytimestamp mode=sed "/s/\[\]//g" | table mytimestamp</CODE></P> <P>or</P> <P><CODE>| rex field=_raw "\[(?&lt; mytimestamp &gt;.*)\]" | table mytimestamp</CODE></P> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:21:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-set-a-timestamp-that-is-in-brackets/m-p/97588#M20334 yannK 2013-01-24T02:21:21Z