Dashboards & Visualizations

Working with strange time & date values (Convert 20190325 into 2019:03:25)

x213217
Explorer

Hello,
I need help with working with some odd styles of time and date values that i am trying to format

TransferStartTime = 000036
This means at the 00 hr 00 min 36 second

TransferStartDate = 20190325
This means at 2019 year 03 month 25 day

So in essence it is basically one clumped value for each time and the date
Since this is not epoch,
how can i separate the StartTime to display as 00:00:36 and the TransferStartDate as 2019:03:25 ? So it is a lot more clear

Tags (1)
0 Karma
1 Solution

renjith_nair
Legend

@x213217 ,

|eval TransferStartDate =strftime(strptime(TransferStartDate,"%Y%m%d"),"%Y:%m:%d")
|eval TransferStartTime =strftime(strptime(TransferStartTime ,"%H%M%S"),"%H:%M:%S")

Combined date & time

 |eval TransferDateTime=TransferStartDate." ".TransferStartTime
---
What goes around comes around. If it helps, hit it with Karma 🙂

View solution in original post

vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

Try like

| makeresults 
| eval TransferStartTime ="000036" 
| rex field=TransferStartTime "(?P<Hr>\d\d)(?P<Min>\d\d)(?P<Sec>\d\d)" 
| eval TransferStartTime = Hr.":".Min.":".Sec 
| eval TransferStartDate ="20190325" 
| rex field=TransferStartDate "(?P<year>\d\d\d\d)(?P<Mon>\d\d)(?P<day>\d\d)" 
| eval TransferStartDate= year.":".Mon.":".day 
| table TransferStartTime TransferStartDate
0 Karma

renjith_nair
Legend

@x213217 ,

|eval TransferStartDate =strftime(strptime(TransferStartDate,"%Y%m%d"),"%Y:%m:%d")
|eval TransferStartTime =strftime(strptime(TransferStartTime ,"%H%M%S"),"%H:%M:%S")

Combined date & time

 |eval TransferDateTime=TransferStartDate." ".TransferStartTime
---
What goes around comes around. If it helps, hit it with Karma 🙂

x213217
Explorer

Thank you!

0 Karma
Career Survey
First 500 qualified respondents will receive a $20 gift card! Tell us about your professional Splunk journey.

Can’t make it to .conf25? Join us online!

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Splunk Lantern’s Guide to The Most Popular .conf25 Sessions

Splunk Lantern is a Splunk customer success center that provides advice from Splunk experts on valuable data ...

Unlock What’s Next: The Splunk Cloud Platform at .conf25

In just a few days, Boston will be buzzing as the Splunk team and thousands of community members come together ...

Index This | How many sevens are there between 1 and 100?

August 2025 Edition Hayyy Splunk Education Enthusiasts and the Eternally Curious!  We’re back with this ...