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How to convert the GMT timezone to EST timezone at search time?

abhi04
Communicator

Hi,

I have a field named "statusChanged" as shown below. I need to convert this (GMT) to EST . please help on the same.

statusChanged: 2018-10-17T15:29:32.000Z

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abhi04
Communicator

eval EST_Time=strftime(strptime(statusChanged,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%3N%Z"),"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

There are no direct function available to do so , but you can try workarounds provided in this post: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/241917/timezone-conversion-function.html

abhi04
Communicator

@somesoni2 The below worked .

eval EST_Time=strftime(strptime(statusChanged,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%3N%Z"),"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

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