A common sysadmin task is looking in the logs to see what occurred in a given time window. It would be nice if journalctl had a flexible, forgiving, and user-friendly command line syntax for specifying begin and end dates to show.
Fixed in git: journalctl --since=2012-10-01 journalctl --since=-5d --until=-6h journalctl --since=yesterday and so on. Since this is a minor change only I'll upload this to F18.
Thanks Lennart. This is very useful and helpful. It occurs to me that it might be nice to have an "--ondate=2012-10-01" or similar as well, to avoid having to give both start and end. But I understand there's a balance with adding more options.
systemd-195-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-1.fc18
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systemd-195-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.