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Month (month)

Owned by Juan Tomás Alonso Nieto (Deactivated)
Last updated: May 16, 2023 by Borja Moro Moreno
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Description

Returns the month from a given timestamp. Optionally, you can check it in a time zone different than yours.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create field in the search window toolbar, then select the Month operation.

If you only add the Timestamp argument, you will get the month considering your current timezone. Optionally, you can specify a different time zone adding the Time zone argument. 

Argument

Data type

Description

Argument

Data type

Description

Timestamp mandatory

timestamp

You can either select a field with that data type or introduce it manually.

In case you want to introduce it, note that this value should be a date: Year-Month_Day Hour:Minute:Second.Millisecond (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS) → You can skip seconds and milliseconds.

Time zone

string

You need a valid string format the app can recognize so it returns meaningful results. If you leave the field empty or introduce a value the app cannot recognize, the default Time Zone is UTC. You can use one of the following methods:

  1. A time zone code→ UTC, PST, CST, etc. Check the full list here.

  2. The time zone database name → America/Los_Angeles, Europe/Amsterdam, Asia/Tokyo, etc. For the full list, see here.

  3. The full name of the time zone →  Universal Time Coordinated, Pacific Standard Time, Central Standard Time, etc. Check the full list here.

  4. The name of the region as it appears in Devo → Asia/Shanghai, Europe/Athens, America/New York, etc. You can check the time zone codes and region names in the Configure Timezone window in Devo.

Be aware that some of the codes coincide, as CST could mean Central Standard Time or China Standard Time. In that case, it would be advisable to avoid using codes and introduce any of the other formats mentioned.

The data type of the new field values will be integer and the values shown will be 0-11, where 0 is January and 11 is December.

Be aware that timestamps taking place during summer will be affected in the time zones in which they set the clock forward during summer. For example, Europe/Madrid (CET-Central European Time), which is UTC+1, becomes UTC+2 during summertime and thus timestamps in August will be affected when using that time zone. Be also aware that summertime differs between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Example

In the siem.logtrust.web.activity table, we want to create a field that indicates the month of the dates in our eventdate field. To do it, we will create a new field using the Month operation.

The arguments needed to create the new field are:

  • Timestamp - eventdate field

Click Create field and you will see the following result:

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as...  and add the operation syntax to create the new field. These are the valid formats for the Month operation:

  • month(timestamp)  → Use this expression to get the month corresponding to the given timestamps, according to your current time zone.

  • month(timestamp, timezone_string)  →  Use this expression to get the month corresponding to the given timestamps, according to the specified time zone.

Example

You can copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the siem.logtrust.web.activity table.

from siem.logtrust.web.activity select month(eventdate) as eventdate_months