From cfbc22abd0525570a6e58968d518ea9a7d0403ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:42:46 +0200
Subject: journalctl: implement --since= and --until for filtering by time

---
 man/journalctl.xml | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 62373d88ab..3786fdf514 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -264,11 +264,42 @@
                                 <term><option>--cursor=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-c</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Jump to the location
-                                in the journal specified by the passed
+                                <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+                                from the location in the journal
+                                specified by the passed
                                 cursor.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><option>--since=</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--until=</option></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Start showing entries
+                                newer or of the specified date,
+                                resp. older or of the specified
+                                date. Date specifications should be of
+                                the format "2012-10-30 18:17:16". If
+                                the time part is omitted, 00:00:00 is
+                                assumed. If only the seconds component
+                                is omitted, :00 is assumed. If the
+                                date component is ommitted, the
+                                current day is assumed. Alternatively
+                                the strings
+                                <literal>yesterday</literal>,
+                                <literal>today</literal>,
+                                <literal>tomorrow</literal> are
+                                understood, which refer to 00:00:00 of
+                                the day before the current day, the
+                                current day, resp the day after the
+                                current day. <literal>now</literal>
+                                refers to the current time. Finally,
+                                relative times may be specified,
+                                prefixed with <literal>-</literal> or
+                                <literal>+</literal>, referring to
+                                times before resp. after the current
+                                time.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-D</option></term>
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