Github user mattf-horton commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/451#discussion_r101203282
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metron-platform/metron-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/parsers/utils/DateUtils.java
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+package org.apache.metron.parsers.utils;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Various utilities for parsing and extracting dates
+ *
+ */
+public class DateUtils {
+
+ public static List<SimpleDateFormat> DATE_FORMATS_CEF = new
ArrayList<SimpleDateFormat>() {
+ {
+ // as per CEF Spec
+ add(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd HH:mm:ss.SSS zzz"));
+ add(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"));
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Systems that don't specify time zone are often time zone naive, meaning
they use local time settings. That may be a better guess than UTC, altho it
only works correctly when the source and the collector app are in the same
zone. I've seen some apps provide a per-source time zone setting to improve
this.
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