How to include a timestamp in alerts in Splunk 6.0?

[beattiedb]

I have a search that produces an Alert.
I want to have the Alert provide a timestamp for the Alert but do not see how this can be done.
I do not want to show the _timestamp on the table of data the Alert provides, just one timestamp along with the Query that is shown with the "Saved search results".
Please tell me what I need to do on the Alert to provide this timestamp.
Thanks.

[linu1988]

Hello,
Please go through the documentation below

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Alert/Setupalertactions

I have not tried it but, you will find the $trigger_date$ & $trigger_time$ which you can use in the email to send it to recipients.

Thanks,
L

[martin_mueller]

That's correct, using tokens for alerting was introduced in 6.1 😞

To build something similar in 6.0 requires some fiddling, it'd likely be easier to just upgrade.

[beattiedb]

I should have mentioned in my original question that we are currently on version 6.0.
I do not see how to use the "$trigger_date$ & $trigger_time$" tokens in our 6.0 version.
Any additional comments/answers would be very much appreciate.