Convert java millisecond to date

[rameshlpatel]

Hi,

I am printing current time in java milisecond in logs which i want to show in splunk by converting that into date.

STARTTIME=1420199729284

please help me to convert this into date.

[martin_mueller]

If you're trying to parse that at index time, use this in props.conf:

TIME_FORMAT = %s%3N

If you're trying to format that into a readable date at search time, use this:

... | eval readable_date = strftime(STARTTIME/1000, "%F %T.%3N")