A Splunk admin notices that events from a custom application are being indexed with the wrong timestamp. The application logs do not include a standard timestamp format, and the admin needs to extract the timestamp from a field called 'event_time' that appears in the raw data. The admin wants to configure this at index time so that the timestamp is applied consistently. Which configuration file should the admin modify?

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A Splunk admin notices that events from a custom application are being indexed with the wrong timestamp. The application logs do not include a standard timestamp format, and the admin needs to extract the timestamp from a field called 'event_time' that appears in the raw data. The admin wants to configure this at index time so that the timestamp is applied consistently. Which configuration file should the admin modify?
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