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How to convert time format to readable time format?

Srubhi
Path Finder

We have data fields in the format, for example, 12Jun22 I need to format like 12-06-2022 
as shown in the below table:

date expected format
12Jun22 12-06-20222
13Jun22 13-06-2022
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
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Splunk has the strptime and strftime functions for that purpose.

| eval date=strftime(strptime(date, "%d%b%y"), "%d-%m-%Y")
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Srubhi
Path Finder

Thanks @richgalloway it worked!

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Splunk has the strptime and strftime functions for that purpose.

| eval date=strftime(strptime(date, "%d%b%y"), "%d-%m-%Y")
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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