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Convert Time

itsmevic
Communicator

After running my query:

| metadata type=sourcetypes index= OR index=_**

I get the following columns:

firstTime lastTime
1578610402 1580348515

How would I convert this time to a readable format?

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
your search
| convert ctime(firstTime)
| convert ctime(lastTime)

yes, command is convert.

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