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86400 in Splunk

phspec
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What significance does '86400' have in Splunk? For example, why is it used here, '| eval day=floor((now()-_time)/86400)'?

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richgalloway
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86400 is the number of seconds in 24 hours. In your example it is used to convert the number of seconds since _time into the number of days since _time.

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richgalloway
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86400 is the number of seconds in 24 hours. In your example it is used to convert the number of seconds since _time into the number of days since _time.

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