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How can I snap to the last second of the month?

brdr
Contributor

I'm looking through time specifiers in Splunk doc. I don't see how I can snap towards the end of month. If I do this:

| makeresults
| eval nnow=now()
| eval lyear=relative_time(nnow, "-1y")
| table nnow lyear

I will get epoch of 1 year ago. What I would like is to snap to the last second of the month (in this case May 2017) 1 year ago. Is this doable?

Thanks

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niketn
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@brdr, try the following run anywhere search

| makeresults 
| eval lyearEndOfCurrentMonth=relative_time(now(), "-1y@mon+1mon-1s") 
| table lyearEndOfCurrentMonth 
| fieldformat lyearEndOfCurrentMonth=strftime(lyearEndOfCurrentMonth,"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")

Which will snap to 2017/05/31 23:59:59

PS: The fieldformat command shows epoch time in human readable string format while retaining the underlying value as epoch time.

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| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"

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niketn
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@brdr, try the following run anywhere search

| makeresults 
| eval lyearEndOfCurrentMonth=relative_time(now(), "-1y@mon+1mon-1s") 
| table lyearEndOfCurrentMonth 
| fieldformat lyearEndOfCurrentMonth=strftime(lyearEndOfCurrentMonth,"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")

Which will snap to 2017/05/31 23:59:59

PS: The fieldformat command shows epoch time in human readable string format while retaining the underlying value as epoch time.

____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"

brdr
Contributor

Awesome. thank you!

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