Solved: How to convert DD/MM/YYY to MM/DD/YYY format? - Splunk Community

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I currently have dates from a log file coming in as 09/07/2018 (July 9, 2018) and they need to be formatted as 07/09/2018.

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Solution

Convert it into a date type variable using strptime and then format it using stftime. Sample run anywhere search below.

|makeresults | eval DATE="09/07/2018" | eval DATE_NEW=strftime(strptime(DATE, "%d/%m/%Y"), "%m/%d/%Y")

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Solution

Convert it into a date type variable using strptime and then format it using stftime. Sample run anywhere search below.

|makeresults | eval DATE="09/07/2018" | eval DATE_NEW=strftime(strptime(DATE, "%d/%m/%Y"), "%m/%d/%Y")

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