topic Re: convert time format in Getting Data In

convert time format

Ravan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:23:52 GMT

Hi ,

In splunk query i need to convert time format as below .

Current format - Apr 13 17:58:35

Required Format : 04/13/2012 5:58:35 PM

Re: convert time format

ziegfried — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:47:48 GMT

Is it the timestamp, that is recognized by Splunk or do you have an extracted field with this value?

Re: convert time format

kristian_kolb — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:49:45 GMT

I believe that you'll have to make a two stage operation, first convert your input format to epoch, and the convert it to your desired format.

... | eval epochtime=strptime(your_current_time_field, "%b %d %H:%M:%S")| eval desired_time=strftime(epochtime, "%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")

However, since the data coming in has no year specification, I'm not sure that you would get usable results. It may be that you'll have to make changes to the logging application so that the full date is being logged.

For information regarding strftime and strptime, see;

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.1/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions
http://strftime.org

UPDATE:

Ah, ziegfried has an important point. If Splunk has read your timestamp (without the year) and parsed and indexed it correctly (you can compare the the timestamps in the events with the timestamp next to the blue down-arrow-thingy to the left of the event), then you can skip the first part and use the _time field, which is already in epoch.

...| eval desired_time=strftime(_time, "%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")

Hope this helps somewhat anyway,

Kristian

Re: convert time format

ziegfried — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:01:58 GMT

Here is how to create a new field by parsing and formatting a date value using Splunk's eval command:

... | eval newdatefield = strftime( strptime( myolddatefield, "%b %d %H:%M:%S" ), "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")

use strptime() to parse a timestamp value
use strftime()to format a timestamp value

Re: convert time format

Ravan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:35:59 GMT

Cool , its working great. Thanks

Re: convert time format

skender27 — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:32:39 GMT

Hi,

I used it for my purposes and it worked.
Thank you very much!

Skender Kollcaku

Re: convert time format

inventsekar — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 12:06:26 GMT

the docs link seems to be broken,.. hence replying link again..

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.4/SearchReference/CommonEvalFunctions

strftime's "Date and time format variables" docs link...

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.4/SearchReference/Commontimeformatvariables