mactime2

Replacement for mactime

Changes to original mactime

• no implicit conversion of timestamp to local date/time
• possibility of explicit timezone correction
• other datetime format (RFC3339) which always includes the timezone offset
• faster

Installation

cargo install mactime2

Usage

mactime2 2.0.1
Jan Starke <Jan.Starke@t-systems.com>
Replacement for `mactime`

USAGE:
    mactime2 [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -b <BODYFILE>                     path to bodyfile of '-' for stdin (files ending with .gz will
                                      be treated as being gzipped) [default: -]
    -f, --from-timezone <SRC_ZONE>    name of offset of source timezone (or 'list' to display all
                                      possible values
    -t, --to-timezone <DST_ZONE>      name of offset of destination timezone (or 'list' to display
                                      all possible values
        --strict                      strict mode: do not only warn, but abort if an error occurs
    -F, --format <OUTPUT_FORMAT>      output format, if not specified, default value is 'txt'
                                      [possible values: csv, txt, json]
    -d                                output as CSV instead of TXT. This is a conveniance option,
                                      which is identical to `--format=csv` and will be removed in a
                                      future release. If you specified `--format` and `-d`, the
                                      latter will be ignored
    -j                                output as JSON instead of TXT. This is a conveniance option,
                                      which is identical to `--format=json` and will be removed in a
                                      future release. If you specified `--format` and `-j`, the
                                      latter will be ignored
    -h, --help                        Print help information
    -q, --quiet                       Less output per occurrence
    -v, --verbose                     More output per occurrence
    -V, --version                     Print version information

Examples

Convert Windows Event Log timelines to better parsable json

mactime2 -j -b sample.bodyfile  | jq '{"ts": .ts, "event": .name | fromjson | {"event_id": .event_id, "channel": .channel_name, "data": .custom_data} }'

results in an output like the following:

{
  "ts": "2022-05-16T03:19:19+00:00",
  "event": {
    "event_id": 4624,
    "channel": "Security",
    "data": {
      "EventData": {
        "AuthenticationPackageName": "-",
        "IpAddress": "-",
        "IpPort": "-",
        "KeyLength": 0,
        "LmPackageName": "-",
        "LogonGuid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "LogonProcessName": "-",
        "LogonType": 0,
        "ProcessId": "0x4",
        "ProcessName": "",
        "SubjectDomainName": "-",
        "SubjectLogonId": "0x0",
        "SubjectUserName": "-",
        "SubjectUserSid": "S-1-0-0",
        "TargetDomainName": "NT-AUTORITÄT",
        "TargetLogonId": "0x3e7",
        "TargetUserName": "SYSTEM",
        "TargetUserSid": "S-1-5-18",
        "TransmittedServices": "-",
        "WorkstationName": "-"
      }
    }
  }
}

Changes