From: Lennart Poettering Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:08:04 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: clarify the formatting of timestamps X-Git-Tag: v183~453^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41048afabb9af1db50af88647a5b93eb8168082c;p=systemd man: clarify the formatting of timestamps --- diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml index 5f2a32cb..becffc73 100644 --- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml +++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml @@ -226,9 +226,10 @@ timestamp of the message, if any is known that is different from the reception time of the - journal. The time in usec - since the epoch formatted as - decimal string. + journal. This is the time in + usec since the epoch UTC + formatted as decimal + string. @@ -293,7 +294,9 @@ The wallclock time (CLOCK_REALTIME) at the point in time the entry was received - by the journal. This has + by the journal, in usec since + the epoch UTC formatted as + decimal string. This has different properties from _SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP= as it is usually a bit later @@ -308,10 +311,12 @@ The monotonic time (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) at the point in time the entry was received - by the journal. To be useful - as an address for the entry - this should be combined with - with boot ID in + by the journal in usec + formatted as decimal + string. To be useful as an + address for the entry this + should be combined with with + boot ID in _BOOT_ID=.