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table export displays different date format

voltaireb
New Member

Hi All, If I create a custom report using a table, the date displays and outputs in the browser fine:
11/1/11 5:35:20.000 PM

However, when I export the custom report to CSV, the date does not display as the browser:
2011-11-01T17:35:20.000-05:00

Any idea how I can get the CSV date to appear like what's displayed in the browser?

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obesechicken13
Explorer

I think this occurs when you create a time chart and export that data. I don't think you can add a field to a timechart just like that.
timechart count by domain,_time
returns _time not valid.

You can go to excel and convert the date manually.

So as an example you can use the datevalue or date functions in excel.
datevalue("2012-11-30")+B2/24
when 2012-11-30 is the first date of your splunk data
and your data has a span of an hour (24)
and column B in excel is a bunch of numbers starting from 0 and incrementing by 1 every row down.

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DanielBC
Explorer

You can add an additional formatted time field to your query to format the date/time into something a little easier to read with: '| convert ctime(_time) as time'

When you export the data you can remove the _time field from the CSV and use the new 'time' field instead.

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