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How can I find the timezone difference in Splunk indexing for 2 timestamps in an event?

swmishra_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am facing an issue, where there are two timestamps in the events, and I want Splunk to detect the first time stamp, not the second one. How can I get it done? here is a sample event

Mar 20 06:27:29 10.214.14.249 id=EQSONICWALL sn=C0EAE4FC9962 time="2019-03-20 05:27:29" fw=10.214.14.249 pri=6 c=1024 m=537
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saramamurthy_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi

You need to make the changes in the props.conf, under which you need to change the time format and you can see the first timestamp With the sample event you have provided you need to makes these changes if you need the first timestamp to be in the event.

TIME_PREFIX = ^
TIME_FORMAT = %b %d %H:%M:%S
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD =15

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