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

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:36:51AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 17.07.13 17:58, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:
> 
> > > +                                </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...
> 
> I agree with Zbigniew here. Having this feature sounds useful, but
> please not in a new switch of its own. However I am not convinced that a
> --timestamps= switch would be necessary for this either, because I
> figure that the only --output= mode where iso dates would be useful
> would be "short". It's not useful for the "json", "json-pretty",
> "json-sse", "export", or "cat" modes, and only semi-useful for "verbose"
> mode. It's primarily useful for the "short" mode. Given that we already
> have a "short-monotonic" mode, maybe we should just add more like these?
> i.e. --output=short-iso or so?
> 
> If one day we really get multiple modes where ISO dates could be useful
> then maybe we could internally handles this by considering the --output=
> param no longer as single value but always as a pair separated by a dash
> or so. If you follow what I mean.
> 
> So, yeah, I'd think adding this as "--output=short-iso" or so would be
> the nicest?

  Additional --timestamp would be overkill, I think.  New output mode works
for me, I will rework the patch.

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