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Time format & Duration Calc

zoebanning
Path Finder

Hello Splunk Community, 

Can anyone help me build a query based on the below;

I want to convert a field (Fri Oct 8 23:15:05 AEDT 2021) into time format & then calculate the duration by subtracting the end time by the start time. 

Appreciate your help 🙂

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@zoebanning 

You can achieve this by using strptime function and tostring function.

 

Can you please try this?

 

YOUR_SEARCH
|eval start_epoch=strptime(start_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"),end_epoch=strptime(end_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"), diff_in_sec=end_epoch-start_epoch,duration=tostring(diff_in_sec,"duration")

 

My Sample Search :

| makeresults 
| eval start_time="Fri Oct 8 23:15:05 AEDT 2021",end_time="Fri Oct 8 23:20:05 AEDT 2021"
|eval start_epoch=strptime(start_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"),end_epoch=strptime(end_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"), diff_in_sec=end_epoch-start_epoch,duration=tostring(diff_in_sec,"duration")

References:

Conversion functions

Date and Time functions

Date and time format variables

I hope this will help you.

Thanks
KV
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zoebanning
Path Finder

Thank you Karma! This was exactly what I needed, appreciate your help 😀

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@zoebanning 

You can achieve this by using strptime function and tostring function.

 

Can you please try this?

 

YOUR_SEARCH
|eval start_epoch=strptime(start_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"),end_epoch=strptime(end_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"), diff_in_sec=end_epoch-start_epoch,duration=tostring(diff_in_sec,"duration")

 

My Sample Search :

| makeresults 
| eval start_time="Fri Oct 8 23:15:05 AEDT 2021",end_time="Fri Oct 8 23:20:05 AEDT 2021"
|eval start_epoch=strptime(start_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"),end_epoch=strptime(end_time,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"), diff_in_sec=end_epoch-start_epoch,duration=tostring(diff_in_sec,"duration")

References:

Conversion functions

Date and Time functions

Date and time format variables

I hope this will help you.

Thanks
KV
▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一   😉

If any of my reply helps you to solve the problem Or gain knowledge, an upvote would be appreciated.

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