Github user MikeThomsen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2101
Everything I insert gets defaulted to some time around the epoch. I tried
your sample, but it doesn't seem to work for me at least (data gets written,
but it doesn't have the appropriate timestamp):
```
water,country=US,city=sf rain=1,humidity=0.6 ${now():toNumber()}
```
Ex output:
```
water,country=US,city=sf rain=1,humidity=0.6 1516999446718
```
Using this query in Chronograf, I get the following results:
```
SELECT * FROM "test_data"."autogen"."water"
```
<img width="1032" alt="screen shot 2018-01-26 at 3 40 27 pm"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/108184/35459708-4ccb9ba6-02af-11e8-852f-7aeabd1806dc.png">
So overall LGTM on code quality, but we need to figure out if this is just
something wrong on my end or with the processor before someone merges it.
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