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How to extract Timestamp using strptime?

thefoque
Observer

Hello!

I can't manage to get Splunk to extract the following timestamp at import.

2015-12-01 00:00:00+00

Could you help me finding the format string required for proper extraction?

Thanks!

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
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It would help to know what you've tried so far and how those attempts have failed.

Have you tried %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%:::z ?

Once parsed, you'll still have a problem with Splunk accepting the date because it's so old.  By default, dates up to 5 years ago are accepted.  Change the MAX_DAYS_AGO setting in props.conf to allow older dates.

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