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How come strptime does not work for some days?

shaileshmali
Path Finder

There seems to be some issue with the strptime function. I'm not sure why it works for few days and does not work for few days.

works

index=_internal 
| eval Disconnect_Time="02/05/2019 08:22:40" 
| eval last_updated_date_epoch=strptime(Disconnect_Time,"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S") 
| eval now=now() 
| eval diff=last_updated_date_epoch-now() 
| eval duration=diff/3600/24 
| table Disconnect_Time,last_updated_date_epoch,now,diff,duration

Does not work

index=_internal 
| eval Disconnect_Time="02/13/2019 08:22:40" 
| eval last_updated_date_epoch=strptime(Disconnect_Time,"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S") 
| eval now=now() 
| eval diff=last_updated_date_epoch-now() 
| eval duration=diff/3600/24 
| table Disconnect_Time,last_updated_date_epoch,now,diff,duration
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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

Because 13 is not a valid month number 😉

Think you need to swap the %d and %m in your time format 🙂

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