[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journalctl: add --iso-dates for long timestamps

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:15:05PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> Add possibility have "short" output with long format ISO 8601 timestamps,
> like "2008-05-28T14:14:46.316223-04:00".
> ---
>  man/journalctl.xml       |  8 ++++++++
>  src/journal/journalctl.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  src/shared/logs-show.c   |  8 +++++++-
>  src/shared/output-mode.h |  3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
> index 3e03c45..8c9a796 100644
> --- a/man/journalctl.xml
> +++ b/man/journalctl.xml
> @@ -170,6 +170,14 @@
>                          </varlistentry>
>  
>                          <varlistentry>
> +                                <term><option>--iso-dates</option></term>
> +
> +                                <listitem><para>In "short" output mode,
> +                                show timestamps in verbose, ISO 8601 format.
> +                                </para></listitem>
> +                        </varlistentry>
So, now we have -o short, -o short-monotonic, and --iso-dates.
I'm sure we'll add a relative timestamp mode like the excellent one in
dmesg --human output in recent util-linux. So I'd say that it makes
sense to deprecate short-monotonic and add a new switch --timestamps,
--timestamps=monotonic → old short-monotonic
--timestamps=iso-date → what you're proposing
--timestamps=...

This makes the whole thing easier to grok, imo. Journalctl already has
1½ page listing of options...

Zbyszek