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Evaluate difference between 2 (string) dates in the same event.

bjbrookz
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Hello, I'm struggling mightily with this one. I have two dates in the same event, both are strings.  Their format is below. I would like to evaluate the number of days between the firstSeen and lastSeen dates. I would also like to evaluate the number of days since firstSeen and when the search is performed. Any help would be much appreciated... 

 

firstSeen: Aug 27, 2022 20:18:37 UTC

lastSeen: Jun 23, 2024 06:17:25 UTC

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Tom_Lundie
Contributor

Hi,

You can do that with an eval command.

| eval firstSeenTS = strptime(firstSeen, "%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"),
lastSeenTS = strptime(lastSeen, "%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"),
firstLastDiff = (lastSeenTS - firstSeenTS)/86400,
firstNowDiff = (now() - firstSeenTS)/86400

If you want to round your days down to whole numbers you can use floor()

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Tom_Lundie
Contributor

Hi,

You can do that with an eval command.

| eval firstSeenTS = strptime(firstSeen, "%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"),
lastSeenTS = strptime(lastSeen, "%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"),
firstLastDiff = (lastSeenTS - firstSeenTS)/86400,
firstNowDiff = (now() - firstSeenTS)/86400

If you want to round your days down to whole numbers you can use floor()

bjbrookz
Explorer

Outstanding. That worked perfectly. Thank you. 

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