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Date and time issue: Why event logs have timestamps 2017 and 2018?

Isaias_Garcia
Path Finder

Hi-

There is an issue in my Splunk regading time and date of each events. Some events have year2017,year2018 in the timestamp.Please help

3/12/18
6:14:00.000 PM

LATEST UPDATE : Mar 12 18:14  LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.659host=xxxxxx   Options|  
sourcetype=lptvpn-too_small   Options|  
source=/var/log/lptvpn.log   Options|  
index=prod   Options|  
timeendpos=28   Options|  
timestartpos=16   Options

6/18/17
5:01:00.000 PM

LATEST UPDATE : Jun 18 17:01  LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.869host=xxxxx   Options|  
sourcetype=lptvpn-too_small   Options|  
source=/var/log/lptvpn.log   Options|  
index=prod   Options|  
timeendpos=28   Options|  
timestartpos=16   Options


3/20/17
5:58:00.000 PM

LATEST UPDATE : Mar 20 17:58  LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.675host=xxxxxx   Options|  
sourcetype=lptvpn-too_small   Options|  
source=/var/log/lptvpn.log   Options|  
index=prod   Options|  
timeendpos=28   Options|  
timestartpos=16   Options


3/19/17
5:46:00.000 PM

LATEST UPDATE : Mar 19 17:46  LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.673host=xxxxx   Options|  
sourcetype=lptvpn-too_small   Options|  
source=/var/log/lptvpn.log   Options|  
index=prod   Options|  
timeendpos=28   Options|  
timestartpos=16   Options


6/17/16
4:13:00.000 PM

LATEST UPDATE : Jun 17 16:13  LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.867host=xxxxx   Options|  
sourcetype=lptvpn-too_small   Options|  
source=/var/log/lptvpn.log   Options|  
index=prod   Options|  
timeendpos=28   Options|  
timestartpos=16   Options
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Isaias_Garcia
Path Finder

i already figured out this one. The splunk gets the timestamp on input of the eventlogs itself. The timestamp show 2018-03-12 because the input of the logs includes Mar 12 18:14.It seems that the timestamps read the time 18:14 (6:14PM) as year 2018.

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lguinn2
Legend

We need to see the inputs.conf and props.conf that you are using to read this file.

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Isaias_Garcia
Path Finder

Below is the extract. As you can see, the time and date of my logs have had discrepancies ( 2017, 2018,2016) .Thanks
_raw _time date_hour date_mday date_minute date_month date_wday date_year date_zone
LATEST UPDATE : Mar 12 18:14 LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.659 2018-03-12T18:14:00.000+1100 18 12 14 march monday 2018 660
LATEST UPDATE : Jun 18 17:01 LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.869 2017-06-18T17:01:00.000+1000 17 18 1 june sunday 2017 600
LATEST UPDATE : Mar 20 17:58 LATEST ANTI-VIRUS DEFINITION : lpt$vpn.675 2017-03-20T17:58:00.000+1100 17 20 58 march monday 2017 660

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