diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock.in b/rust/Cargo.lock.in
index 7438c3646d..11895656c8 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.lock.in
+++ b/rust/Cargo.lock.in
@@ -685,6 +685,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "humantime"
+version = "2.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "135b12329e5e3ce057a9f972339ea52bc954fe1e9358ef27f95e89716fbc5424"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "indexmap"
 version = "2.9.0"
@@ -1522,6 +1528,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "hex",
  "hkdf",
+ "humantime",
  "ipsec-parser",
  "kerberos-parser",
  "lazy_static",
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.toml.in b/rust/Cargo.toml.in
index ddbce97b0c..a90063e804 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.toml.in
+++ b/rust/Cargo.toml.in
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ lazy_static = "~1.5.0"
 base64 = "~0.22.1"
 bendy = { version = "~0.3.3", default-features = false }
 asn1-rs = { version = "~0.6.2" }
+humantime = "~2.3.0"
 ldap-parser = { version = "~0.5.0" }
 hex = "~0.4.3"
 psl = "2"
diff --git a/rust/src/util.rs b/rust/src/util.rs
index 56b37ea853..a8ebe9b9e4 100644
--- a/rust/src/util.rs
+++ b/rust/src/util.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 //! Utility module.
 
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::ffi::CStr;
 use std::os::raw::c_char;
 
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ use nom7::combinator::verify;
 use nom7::multi::many1_count;
 use nom7::IResult;
 
+use humantime::parse_duration;
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn SCCheckUtf8(val: *const c_char) -> bool {
     CStr::from_ptr(val).to_str().is_ok()
@@ -64,10 +67,56 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn SCValidateDomain(input: *const u8, in_len: u32) -> u32
     return 0;
 }
 
+/// Add 's' suffix if input is only digits, and convert to lowercase if needed.
+fn duration_unit_normalize(input: &str) -> Cow<'_, str> {
+    if input.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit()) {
+        let mut owned = String::with_capacity(input.len() + 1);
+        owned.push_str(input);
+        owned.push('s');
+        return Cow::Owned(owned);
+    }
+
+    if input.bytes().any(|b| b.is_ascii_uppercase()) {
+        Cow::Owned(input.to_ascii_lowercase())
+    } else {
+        Cow::Borrowed(input)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Reads a C string from `input`, parses it, and writes the result to `*res`.
+/// Returns 0 on success (result written to *res), -1 otherwise.
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn SCParseTimeDuration(input: *const c_char, res: *mut u64) -> i32 {
+    if input.is_null() || res.is_null() {
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    let input_str = match CStr::from_ptr(input).to_str() {
+        Ok(s) => s,
+        Err(_) => return -1,
+    };
+
+    let trimmed = input_str.trim();
+    if trimmed.is_empty() {
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    let normalized = duration_unit_normalize(trimmed);
+    match parse_duration(normalized.as_ref()) {
+        Ok(duration) => {
+            *res = duration.as_secs();
+            0
+        }
+        Err(_) => -1,
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
     use super::*;
+    use std::ffi::CString;
+    use std::ptr::{null, null_mut};
 
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_domain() {
@@ -84,4 +133,73 @@ mod tests {
         let buf1: &[u8] = "a(x)y.com".as_bytes();
         assert!(parse_domain(buf1).is_err());
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_time_valid() {
+        unsafe {
+            let mut v: u64 = 0;
+
+            let s = CString::new("10").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 10);
+
+            let s = CString::new("0").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 0);
+
+            let s = CString::new("2H").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 7200);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1 day").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 86400);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1w").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 604800);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1 week").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 604800);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1y").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 31557600);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1 year").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, 31557600);
+
+            // max
+            let s = CString::new("18446744073709551615").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), 0);
+            assert_eq!(v, u64::MAX);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_time_duration_invalid() {
+        unsafe {
+            let mut v: u64 = 0;
+            let s = CString::new("10q").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), -1);
+
+            let s = CString::new("abc").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), -1);
+
+            let s = CString::new("-300s").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), -1);
+
+            let s = CString::new("1h -600s").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), -1);
+
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(null(), &mut v), -1);
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), null_mut()), -1);
+
+            let overflow_years = (u64::MAX / 31557600) + 1;
+            let s = CString::new(format!("{}y", overflow_years)).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(SCParseTimeDuration(s.as_ptr(), &mut v), -1);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/rust/sys/src/sys.rs b/rust/sys/src/sys.rs
index 5a7effeace..1f1f8ec93b 100644
--- a/rust/sys/src/sys.rs
+++ b/rust/sys/src/sys.rs
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ extern "C" {
         name: *const ::std::os::raw::c_char, val: *mut f32,
     ) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int;
 }
+extern "C" {
+    pub fn SCConfGetTime(
+        name: *const ::std::os::raw::c_char, val: *mut u64,
+    ) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int;
+}
 extern "C" {
     pub fn SCConfSet(
         name: *const ::std::os::raw::c_char, val: *const ::std::os::raw::c_char,