https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243824#M47198 <P>We use UTC as our timezone for Hunk + HIve. So we use this in our indexes.conf</P> <P>vix.input.1.et.timezone = UTC</P> <P>I have read <A href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html</A> but am not clear if "UTC" is legitimate. <BR /> If not, what should I use?</P> Thu, 12 May 2016 15:46:32 GMT burwell 2016-05-12T15:46:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243824#M47198 <P>We use UTC as our timezone for Hunk + HIve. So we use this in our indexes.conf</P> <P>vix.input.1.et.timezone = UTC</P> <P>I have read <A href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html</A> but am not clear if "UTC" is legitimate. <BR /> If not, what should I use?</P> Thu, 12 May 2016 15:46:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243824#M47198 burwell 2016-05-12T15:46:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243825#M47199 <P>Not much help at <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Hunk/latest/Hunk/Setupvirtualindexes">Set up virtual indexes</A></P> Fri, 13 May 2016 21:14:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243825#M47199 ddrillic 2016-05-13T21:14:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243826#M47200 <P>UTC = GMT</P> Mon, 16 May 2016 14:53:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243826#M47200 jkat54 2016-05-16T14:53:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243827#M47201 <P>So I should be putting GMT not UTC?</P> Mon, 16 May 2016 18:16:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243827#M47201 burwell 2016-05-16T18:16:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243828#M47202 <P>It's Java util simple time zone...</P> <P>I googled Java time zone IDs and found that GMT should be fine but if that doesn't work try GMT + 0:00</P> Mon, 16 May 2016 19:26:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243828#M47202 jkat54 2016-05-16T19:26:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243829#M47203 <P>If that doesn't work try "universal" instead as UTC and universal are supposed to work just as well</P> Mon, 16 May 2016 19:27:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Hunk-UTC-timezone/m-p/243829#M47203 jkat54 2016-05-16T19:27:43Z