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How to change time format in my search?

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I am using search
...|timechart sum(x) by y
but _time is showing as 2014-4-3-T 00:00, but I want the format of _time on the x axis to be 2014-4-3 only. How do I do this?

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kml_uvce
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use this

..|timechart sum(x) by y|eval _time=strftime(_time,"%Y"-%m-%d)

kamal singh bisht

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kml_uvce
Builder

use this

..|timechart sum(x) by y|eval _time=strftime(_time,"%Y"-%m-%d)

kamal singh bisht

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Explorer

Thanks its working...

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