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convert large duration timelapse to decimal hour

mjones414
Contributor

I'm trying to convert a timestamp where my hour will go beyone 24 hours: for example: 305:44:03 The ctime and dur2sec don't seem to be handling this timeformat properly with either "%H:%M:%S or %H%H%H:%M:%S or %k:%M:%S. and so on...

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chrisyounger
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Well you could carve it up yourself like this:

| makeresults 
| eval val ="305:44:03" 
| rex field=val "(?<hr>\d+):(?<min>\d+):(?<sec>\d+)" 
| eval duration = (hr * 3600) + (min * 60) + sec 
| table duration

All the best

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