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How will Splunk handle the clock change for leap seconds in June 2012?

mctester
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See this webpage for reference - http://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html

On June 30 2012, an extra second will be added to UTC, which will result in events with a timestamp of 'Jun 30 23:59:60' - Will Splunk recognize this as a valid timestamp?

I have multiline event log files that are broken based on the timestamp in the events, will Splunk still break the events properly?

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are breaking events based on timestamps, that extraction should still work as the format of the timestamp will not change and that is what the linebreaking processor is interested in. What that timestamp actually means in real terms is not a consideration when identifying where to break events.

Any events containing the timestamp with a leap second will be indexed as 23:59:59, and will be searchable.

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ntbahriti_splun
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There is an interesting wiki about the leap second at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second, for those curious to better understand.

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are breaking events based on timestamps, that extraction should still work as the format of the timestamp will not change and that is what the linebreaking processor is interested in. What that timestamp actually means in real terms is not a consideration when identifying where to break events.

Any events containing the timestamp with a leap second will be indexed as 23:59:59, and will be searchable.

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