Strange timestamp warning

[nonaronald]

Hi everyone,

I'm importing data from Windows event logs to a Splunk machine in Unix (version 7.0.3).

I have a weird warning when I try to do my timestamp configuration.

My logs timestamp looks like this:

2019-03-10 12:04:44:foo: bar ...

So I follow the official doc and I put:
TIME_FORMAT = %y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S:
but I get some warnings and the event breaking is wrong.

Warning: Could not use strptime to
parse timestamp from"2019-03-10
12:04:44:foo..."

Then when I try:
TIME_FORMAT= %y%-%m%-%d %H%:%M%:%S%:
which is surprisingly not a format anywhere in the docs, everything looks fine.

Can anyone help me understand what's going on?
I'm not sure if I'm following the best practices...

I join some screenshots.
Thank you in advance.

With warning:
Without warning:

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

I don't why the second format works, but it shouldn't. Your first format is almost correct, it just needs to be modified to look for 4-digit years.

TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

[nonaronald]

Thank you richgalloway. It was my mistake %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S works well but the other format works well too.
That's why I was confused.