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sorting date/time

SoknySplunk
Loves-to-Learn Lots

Hi,
I have example of date/time as below

Mon 28 Dec 2015 06:26:19 PM ICT
Mon 26 May 2014 04:52:02 PM ICT
Fri 17 Feb 2017 04:01:59 PM ICT
Wed 28 Jun 2017 05:49:04 PM ICT
Wed 05 Oct 2016 06:46:30 PM ICT

I want to sort it by date, month year... in the correct order. could you please tell me how to do it.

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SoknySplunk
Loves-to-Learn Lots

It works well, thanks you

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You would have to convert the timestamp to epoch to sort it.

Option 1 (creating a new field to sort)

your current search giving above field with name say DateTime
| eval sortfield=strptime(DateTime,"%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %p %Z") 
| sort sortfield| field - sortfield

Option 2 (using same field)

your current search giving above field with name say DateTime
| eval DateTime=strptime(DateTime,"%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %p %Z") 
| sort DateTime| | eval DateTime=strftime(DateTime,"%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %p %Z") 
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