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How do I convert this string into a timestamp? the convert and eval functions don't work.

gregbo
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I have the following string:

20170306155556+0000

Splunk doesn't seem to understand that format. I've tried strptime, strftime, convert(auto)...nothing works. How do i get splunk to recognize that (that string is referring to "March 06, 2017, at 15:55:56 UTC).

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somesoni2
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This works for me (run anywhere sample search)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval date="20170306155556+0000" | table date | eval _time=strptime(date, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S%z")

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somesoni2
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This works for me (run anywhere sample search)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval date="20170306155556+0000" | table date | eval _time=strptime(date, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S%z")

gregbo
Communicator

That worked perfectly! Thanks!

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