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Can I specify earliest time including subseconds?

mslvrstn
Communicator

Is it possible to specify earliest= at subsecond granularity?

Thanks for your help.

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes.

[splunk@MrT ~]$ splunk/bin/splunk search 'index=_internal earliest=1299878273 latest=1299878274 | stats count'
INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string
count
-----
   46

[splunk@MrT ~]$ splunk/bin/splunk search 'index=_internal earliest=1299878273.651 latest=1299878274 | stats count'
INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string
count
-----
    4

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes.

[splunk@MrT ~]$ splunk/bin/splunk search 'index=_internal earliest=1299878273 latest=1299878274 | stats count'
INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string
count
-----
   46

[splunk@MrT ~]$ splunk/bin/splunk search 'index=_internal earliest=1299878273.651 latest=1299878274 | stats count'
INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string
count
-----
    4

mslvrstn
Communicator

Awesome! Thanks!

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