Convert date string to timestamp

[Master162]

Hi,

I have a field called datetime - example is datetime=Wed Feb 03 17:56:37 UTC 2021

I essentially want to convert this so I can evaluate the difference between the event timestamp with this datetime field. I have already converted the event timestamp using: | eval input=strptime(_time, "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p") ---> this would show me 2021-02-03 18:07:42.958

How do I convert the datetime field so it's in the same format and how to show the difference between these fields?

[scelikok]

Hi @Master162,

Please try this;

| eval datetime_epoc=strptime(datetime,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y") 
| eval diff=_time-datetime_epoc