{"id":60862,"date":"2022-07-22T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=60862"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:47:35","slug":"answer-by-warren-for-splunk-calculate-time-and-doubling-it-from-the-user-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=60862","title":{"rendered":"Answer by warren for Splunk &#8211; Calculate time and doubling it from the user selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This works for the <em>range<\/em> aspect of your question (eg choosing 17-20 Jul)<\/p>\n<p>It distinctly <em>does not<\/em> work for the &quot;Presets&quot; or &quot;Relative&quot; options from a time picker<\/p>\n<p>When you select a date range from a time picker, you&#8217;ll get a pair of Unix epoch times returned<\/p>\n<p>If you subtract <code>$picker.earliest$<\/code> from <code>$picker.latest$<\/code>, multiply by two, and assign the result into a new token (eg <code>&quot;$evenearlier$&quot;<\/code>), you&#8217;ll get the following inside your dropdown&#8217;s XML:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;change&gt;\n    &lt;eval token=&quot;evenearlier&quot;&gt;($picker.latest$-(($picker.latest$-$picker.earliest$)*2))&lt;\/eval&gt;\n&lt;\/change&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then, down in your query, do this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;earliest&gt;$evenearlier$&lt;\/earliest&gt;\n&lt;latest&gt;$picker.latest$&lt;\/latest&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>from User warren &#8211; Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/39204162\/splunk-calculate-time-and-doubling-it-from-the-user-selection\/73082133#73082133<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This works for the range aspect of your question (eg choosing 17-20 Jul) It distinctly does not work for the &quot;Presets&quot; or &quot;Relative&quot; options from a time picker When you select a date range from a time picker, you&#8217;ll get a pair of Unix epoch times returned If you subtract $picker.earliest$ from $picker.latest$, multiply by &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=60862\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Answer by warren for Splunk &#8211; Calculate time and doubling it from the user selection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[991],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-60862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-stackexchange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60863,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60862\/revisions\/60863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60862"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=60862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}