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How to convert time stamp?

kiran331
Builder

Hi,

How to convert the seconds in to days, hours, sec? Any suggestions ?

for eg:

I have a sec field to convert to "2 Day(s) 3 Hr. 12 Min. 5Sec."

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LCM_BRogerson
Path Finder

Hi @kiran331

You can use the splunk tostring and diff functions to convert a number in seconds to a range of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
tostring with the duration format will output the time as [days]+[hours]:[minutes]:[seconds] ie: 2+03:12:05. You can then use replace function of eval to format the output.

[your search]
| eval duration = tostring([your time in seconds], "duration") 
| eval TimeRange=replace(duration,"(\d*)\+*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)","\1 Day(s) \2 HR .\3 Min. \4 Sec.")

More information on tostring can be found
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/SearchReference/ConversionFunctions#tostring....
More information on Replace can be found
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/SearchReference/TextFunctions#replace.28X.2CY...

Cheers.

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LCM_BRogerson
Path Finder

Hi @kiran331

You can use the splunk tostring and diff functions to convert a number in seconds to a range of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
tostring with the duration format will output the time as [days]+[hours]:[minutes]:[seconds] ie: 2+03:12:05. You can then use replace function of eval to format the output.

[your search]
| eval duration = tostring([your time in seconds], "duration") 
| eval TimeRange=replace(duration,"(\d*)\+*(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)","\1 Day(s) \2 HR .\3 Min. \4 Sec.")

More information on tostring can be found
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/SearchReference/ConversionFunctions#tostring....
More information on Replace can be found
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/SearchReference/TextFunctions#replace.28X.2CY...

Cheers.

kiran331
Builder

Thank you! It worked

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niketn
Legend

@kiran331, Something similar has been answered before.
1) Using reltime command you can get relative difference of _time as per current time. However, it will be precise only to the highest unit of time i.e. 2 days 3 hours 30 min 20 sec will become 2 days ago. First you need to adjust _time as now()-duration and then pipe reltime.

2) Using tostring(duration,"duration") and then followed by rex with sed or replace() function:

Following is a run anywhere search with both examples:

|  makeresults
|  eval duration=3645
|  append 
    [|  makeresults
|  eval duration=84450]
|  append 
    [|  makeresults
|  eval duration=163431]
|  eval _time=now()-duration
|  reltime 
|  rename reltime as durRelTime
|  eval durDaysHHMMSS=tostring(duration,"duration")
|  eval durDaysHHMMSS=replace(durDaysHHMMSS,"\+"," Day(s) ")
|  eval durDaysHHMMSS=replace(durDaysHHMMSS,"(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)","\1 Hr. \2 Min. \3 Sec.")
____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"
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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Use REX to split the field.

|rex field=text "(?<day>\d*)\sDay\(s\)\s(?<hr>\d*)\sHr\.\s(?<min>\d*)\sMin\.\s(?<sec>\d*)Sec.*"
|eval seconds=day*24*60*60+hr*60*60+min*60+sec
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