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strftime() showing different time

wuming79
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I converted my timeStampLight with strftime() but all my time was formatted to 31-12-9999 23:59:59 when I table time .
My timeStampLight is actually showing Epoch time format when I table timeStampLight. The format "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S" should be correct as I managed to get my timestamp for the other log.

Any idea what went wrong with this one??

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi wuming79,
what is your timeStampLight value?
try to divide by 1000 and then apply strftime.

| eval timeStampLight=strftime(timeStampLight/1000,"%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")

Bye.
Giuseppe

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It looks like your timeStampLight field isn't actually an epochtime value (seconds since the epoch), but rather milliseconds since the epoch, ie epochtime*1000. So @cusello's suggestion to divide by 1000 before strftime should work for you.

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wuming79
Path Finder

ah thanks!

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi wuming79,
what is your timeStampLight value?
try to divide by 1000 and then apply strftime.

| eval timeStampLight=strftime(timeStampLight/1000,"%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")

Bye.
Giuseppe

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