That is helpful thanks!  I’ll have to see which processor we extended and go 
from there.

James.


On 2010-10-12, at 12:53 PM, Bill Graham wrote:

> How the time is determined depends on what Processor is used, but this
> field should be the time that is associated with when that record was
> created by the data source (i.e. when the event it represents actually
> occurred).
> 
> For example, if you're using the TsProcessor on a log file, you'll get
> the time found in the log line as parsed into a Date object (see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CHUKWA-472).
> 
> I believe other processors (defaultProcessor?) will use the time that
> the record was created in the adaptor if a time can't be grokked by
> looking at the record itself.
> 
> HTH,
> Bill
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, James Seigel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Quick question.
>> 
>> When you call getTime() on a chukwa record.  What time am I getting?
>> 
>>        is it gmt?
>>        is it agent time?
>>        is it demux time?
>>        is it collector time?
>> 
>> My head is just a little confused.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> James.
>> 
>> 

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