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Date sorting

iamniks
Explorer

Can you please tell how to sort date values ?

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MHibbin
Influencer

You could try

*|sort -_time

Or do you have a unique date value. If its already extracted you could do something like

*|sort -<date_field>

you may need to convert it to epoch time, if you are having issues.

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Ayn
Legend

Provide more information on your problem please.

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