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Overwrite _time

ubko
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Can I overwrite _time with another time from one of the fields in the event?

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ubko
Explorer

Turns out you can.

I'm basically doing:

_time = strptime(real_time, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

yes you can.

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