We have several systems with SNMP-Values of octetstring, formatted in a special manner for Date and Time:

ateAndTime ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "2d-1d-1d,1d:1d:1d.1d,1a1d:1d"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A date-time specification.

field octets contents range
----- ------ -------- -----
1 1-2 year 0..65536
2 3 month 1..12
3 4 day 1..31
4 5 hour 0..23
5 6 minutes 0..59
6 7 seconds 0..60
(use 60 for leap-second)
7 8 deci-seconds 0..9
8 9 direction from UTC '+' / '-'
9 10 hours from UTC 0..11

10 11 minutes from UTC 0..59

For example, Tuesday May 26, 1992 at 1:30:15 PM EDT would be
displayed as:

1992-5-26,13:30:15.0,-4:0

Note that if only local time is known, then timezone
information (fields 8-10) is not present."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (8 | 11))

For us it is useful to get this converted into a timestamp so that we can work with several trigger functions. I know about the new feature of preprocessing and I think this functionality could be a good additional feature to have it implemented.

Kind Regards,
Kay