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Time formatting from a single field

muralianup
Communicator

I have a field where time format in: 20020523135537Z which is 05/23/2002 13:53:37 GMT . How can I convert to human readable form in the results ?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Here's one way.

... | eval timestr = strftime(strptime(field, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S%Z"), "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z") | ...
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Here's one way.

... | eval timestr = strftime(strptime(field, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S%Z"), "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %Z") | ...
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

muralianup
Communicator

Thank you. Works perfect.

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