On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 07:31:07PM +0300, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 06/09/2022 11:47, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:04:36AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> >> lib/timeutils.c | 8 ++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > Applied, thanks.
>
> After some tinkering with a script where I needed this, would it make
> sense to change the way how one should be specifying seconds since the
> Epoch time to
> '@'<number>
Yes, '@' seems more readable. I have no strong opinion about it, maybe
we can support both convention (with and without @).
Anyway, we really need to add something like "INPUT TIMESTAMP" section
to the man page to describe supported formats.
> This would match how for example systemd.time requires it [1]
>
> Basically I (or anyone) can use dmesg instead of journalctl in a script
> with the same --since=@<timestamp> parameter.
>
> 'date +%s' prints out just a number.
It's possible to use --since=$(date +'@%s')
> If not, then I have made a rookie mistake with the patch, which should
> be fixed (discarding the seconds we got out from the timestamp).
Do you mean your copy & past tm.tm_sec = 0;? This should be fixed.
> /me hides
Come back and send a patch :-)
Karel
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