Github user kylerichardson commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/276#discussion_r82490277
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metron-platform/metron-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/parsers/utils/SyslogUtils.java
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+package org.apache.metron.parsers.utils;
+
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+
+public class SyslogUtils {
+
+ public static long convertToEpochMillis(String logTimestamp, String
logTimeFormat) {
+ ZonedDateTime timestamp = ZonedDateTime.parse(logTimestamp,
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(logTimeFormat).withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC));
+ return timestamp.toEpochSecond() * 1000;
+ }
+
+ public static long parseTimestampToEpochMillis(String logTimestamp) {
+ if (logTimestamp.length() < 20) {
+ ZonedDateTime now = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC);
+ int year = now.getYear();
+ if (now.getDayOfYear() == 1 &&
!now.getMonth().toString().substring(0,3).equals(logTimestamp.substring(0,3).toUpperCase()))
+ year--;
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Sure. I see how this is not entirely obvious. I'm trying to solve an edge
case here where a message comes in for parsing without a year in the timestamp
on January 1st but the message was actually generated on the device on December
31st. I'll add in some comments for clarity.
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