# Influx timestamp compare to a timestamp value

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/influx-timestamp-compare-to-a-timestamp-value/7973>\
**Category:** Dashboards\
**Tags:** influxdb, grafana, time, query\
**Created:** [December 29, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influx-timestamp-compare-to-a-timestamp-value/7973 "2018-12-29T07:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tzahimizrahi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@tzahimizrahi](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tzahimizrahi)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influx-timestamp-compare-to-a-timestamp-value/7973/1 "2018-12-29T07:42:13Z")

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Hi community!  
I maintained a measurement that include the timestamp value of events.  
I’m looking for a method that will allow me to get the difference between the record timestamp in InfluxDB to the event timestamp.

At the moment I’m not able to modify the insert statement.