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How to find the number of days between a certain date field and today?

nspatel
Explorer

Hi Everyone,

I have a field called 'ddate'. This field is setup in the 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss' format. I would like to know how many days ago that date was from today.

Data looks like this:
ddate="2014-08-18 09:07:47"

I need this in the end to be a number. Any idea? Thanks!

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Something like this?

... | eval ddate_epoch = strptime(ddate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") | eval diff_seconds = now() - ddate_epoch | eval diff_days = diff_seconds / 86400

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Something like this?

... | eval ddate_epoch = strptime(ddate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") | eval diff_seconds = now() - ddate_epoch | eval diff_days = diff_seconds / 86400

nspatel
Explorer

Ah I see what I was doing wrong now! Thank you so much Martin!!!!!!!

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