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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
man: use same header for all files The "include" files had type "book" for some raeason. I don't think this is meaningful. Let's just use the same everywhere. $ perl -i -0pe 's^..DOCTYPE (book|refentry) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.[25]//EN"\s+"http^<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"\n "http^gms' man/*.xml
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
man: revert dynamic paths for split-usr setups This did not really work out as we had hoped. Trying to do this upstream introduced several problems that probably makes it better suited as a downstream patch after all. At any rate, it is not releaseable in the current state, so we at least need to revert this before the release. * by adjusting the path to binaries, but not do the same thing to the search path we end up with inconsistent man-pages. Adjusting the search path too would be quite messy, and it is not at all obvious that this is worth the effort, but at any rate it would have to be done before we could ship this. * this means that distributed man-pages does not make sense as they depend on config options, and for better or worse we are still distributing man pages, so that is something that definitely needs sorting out before we could ship with this patch. * we have long held that split-usr is only minimally supported in order to boot, and something we hope will eventually go away. So before we start adding even more magic/effort in order to make this work nicely, we should probably question if it makes sense at all.
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
man: standarize on one-line license header No need to waste space, and uniformity is good. $ perl -i -0pe 's|\n+<!--\s*SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1..\s*-->|\n<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->|gms' man/*.xml
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<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->
man: document calendar timers
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<refentry id="systemd.time">
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<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd.time</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd.time</refname>
<refpurpose>Time and date specifications</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>In systemd, timestamps, time spans, and calendar events are
displayed and may be specified in closely related syntaxes.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Displaying Time Spans</title>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>Time spans refer to time durations. On display, systemd will present time spans as a space-separated series
of time values each suffixed by a time unit. Example:</para>
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<programlisting>2h 30min</programlisting>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>All specified time values are meant to be added up. The above hence refers to 150 minutes. Display is
locale-independent, only English names for the time units are used.</para>
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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Parsing Time Spans</title>
<para>When parsing, systemd will accept the same time span syntax.
Separating spaces may be omitted. The following time units are
understood:</para>
<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>usec, us, µs</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>msec, ms</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>seconds, second, sec, s</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>minutes, minute, min, m</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>hours, hour, hr, h</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>days, day, d</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>weeks, week, w</para></listitem>
man: document our definition of a year and a month Let's be accurate here, as this might be surprising to people.
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<listitem><para>months, month, M (defined as 30.44 days)</para></listitem>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<listitem><para>years, year, y (defined as 365.25 days)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>If no time unit is specified, generally seconds are assumed, but some exceptions exist and are marked as
such. In a few cases <literal>ns</literal>, <literal>nsec</literal> is accepted too, where the granularity of the
time span permits this. Parsing is generally locale-independent, non-English names for the time units are not
accepted.</para>
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<para>Examples for valid time span specifications:</para>
<programlisting>2 h
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2hours
48hr
1y 12month
55s500ms
300ms20s 5day</programlisting>
analyze: Add "timespan" command to dump time span in usec This is useful for a couple of cases, I'm mostly interested in case #1: 1. Verifying "reasonable" values in a trivially scriptable way 2. Debugging unexpected time span parsing directly Test Plan: ``` % build/systemd-analyze timespan 20 Original: 20 μs: 20 Human: 20us % build/systemd-analyze timespan 20ms Original: 20ms μs: 20000 Human: 20ms % build/systemd-analyze timespan 20z Failed to parse time span '20z': Invalid argument ```
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<para>One can use the <command>timespan</command> command of
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-analyze</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to normalise a textual time span for testing and validation purposes.</para>
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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Displaying Timestamps</title>
<para>Timestamps refer to specific, unique points in time. On
display, systemd will format these in the local timezone as
follows:</para>
<programlisting>Fri 2012-11-23 23:02:15 CET</programlisting>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>The weekday is printed in the abbreviated English language form. The formatting is locale-independent.</para>
<para>In some cases timestamps are shown in the UTC timezone instead of the local timezone, which is indicated via
the <literal>UTC</literal> timezone specifier in the output.</para>
<para>In some cases timestamps are shown with microsecond granularity. In this case the sub-second remainder is
separated by a full stop from the seconds component.</para>
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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Parsing Timestamps</title>
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>When parsing, systemd will accept a similar syntax, but expects no timezone specification, unless it is given
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as the literal string <literal>UTC</literal> (for the UTC timezone), or is specified to be the locally configured
timezone, or the timezone name in the IANA timezone database format. The complete list of timezones
supported on your system can be obtained using the <literal>timedatectl list-timezones</literal>
(see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
Using IANA format is recommended over local timezone names, as less prone to errors (eg: with local timezone it's possible to
specify daylight saving time in winter, while it's incorrect). The weekday specification is optional, but when
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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the weekday is specified, it must either be in the abbreviated (<literal>Wed</literal>) or non-abbreviated
(<literal>Wednesday</literal>) English language form (case does not matter), and is not subject to the locale
choice of the user. Either the date, or the time part may be omitted, in which case the current date or 00:00:00,
respectively, is assumed. The seconds component of the time may also be omitted, in which case ":00" is
assumed. Year numbers may be specified in full or may be abbreviated (omitting the century).</para>
<para>A timestamp is considered invalid if a weekday is specified and the date does not match the specified day of
the week.</para>
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<para>When parsing, systemd will also accept a few special
placeholders instead of timestamps: <literal>now</literal> may be
used to refer to the current time (or of the invocation of the
command that is currently executed). <literal>today</literal>,
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<literal>yesterday</literal>, and <literal>tomorrow</literal> refer to
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00:00:00 of the current day, the day before, or the next day,
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respectively.</para>
<para>When parsing, systemd will also accept relative time
specifications. A time span (see above) that is prefixed with
<literal>+</literal> is evaluated to the current time plus the
specified time span. Correspondingly, a time span that is prefixed
with <literal>-</literal> is evaluated to the current time minus
the specified time span. Instead of prefixing the time span with
<literal>+</literal> or <literal>-</literal>, it may also be
suffixed with a space and the word <literal>left</literal> or
<literal>ago</literal>.</para>
<para>Finally, a timespan prefixed with <literal>@</literal> is
evaluated relative to the UNIX time epoch 1st Jan, 1970,
00:00.</para>
tree-wide: fix how we set $TZ According to tzset(3) we need to prefix timezone names with ":". Let's do so hence, to avoid any ambiguities and follow documented behaviour.
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<para>Examples for valid timestamps and their normalized form (assuming the current time was 2012-11-23
18:15:22 and the timezone was UTC+8, for example <literal>TZ=:Asia/Shanghai</literal>):</para>
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<programlisting> Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
2012-11-23 11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
2012-11-23 11:12:13 UTC → Fri 2012-11-23 19:12:13
2012-11-23 → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
12-11-23 → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
11:12:13 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:13
11:12 → Fri 2012-11-23 11:12:00
now → Fri 2012-11-23 18:15:22
today → Fri 2012-11-23 00:00:00
today UTC → Fri 2012-11-23 16:00:00
yesterday → Fri 2012-11-22 00:00:00
tomorrow → Fri 2012-11-24 00:00:00
tomorrow Pacific/Auckland → Thu 2012-11-23 19:00:00
+3h30min → Fri 2012-11-23 21:45:22
-5s → Fri 2012-11-23 18:15:17
11min ago → Fri 2012-11-23 18:04:22
@1395716396 → Tue 2014-03-25 03:59:56</programlisting>
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util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>Note that timestamps displayed by remote systems with a non-matching timezone are usually not parsable
locally, as the timezone component is not understood (unless it happens to be <literal>UTC</literal>).</para>
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util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>Timestamps may also be specified with microsecond granularity. The sub-second remainder is expected separated
by a full stop from the seconds component. Example:</para>
<programlisting>2014-03-25 03:59:56.654563</programlisting>
<para>In some cases, systemd will display a relative timestamp (relative to the current time, or the time of
invocation of the command) instead of or in addition to an absolute timestamp as described above. A relative
timestamp is formatted as follows:</para>
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util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<programlisting>2 months 5 days ago</programlisting>
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util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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<para>Note that a relative timestamp is also accepted where a timestamp is expected (see above).</para>
analyze: add 'timestamp' verb We had 'calendar' and 'timespan', but the third one was missing. Also consistently order the verbs as calendar/timestamp/timespan in help. The output from 'timespan' is highlighted more. Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1711065.
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<para>Use the <command>timestamp</command> command of
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-analyze</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> to
validate and normalize timestamps for testing purposes.</para>
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<title>Calendar Events</title>
<para>Calendar events may be used to refer to one or more points
in time in a single expression. They form a superset of the
absolute timestamps explained above:</para>
<programlisting>Thu,Fri 2012-*-1,5 11:12:13</programlisting>
<para>The above refers to 11:12:13 of the first or fifth day of
any month of the year 2012, but only if that day is a Thursday or
Friday.</para>
<para>The weekday specification is optional. If specified, it
should consist of one or more English language weekday names,
either in the abbreviated (Wed) or non-abbreviated (Wednesday)
form (case does not matter), separated by commas. Specifying two
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weekdays separated by <literal>..</literal> refers to a range of
continuous weekdays. <literal>,</literal> and <literal>..</literal>
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may be combined freely.</para>
<para>In the date and time specifications, any component may be
specified as <literal>*</literal> in which case any value will
match. Alternatively, each component can be specified as a list of
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values separated by commas. Values may be suffixed with
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<literal>/</literal> and a repetition value, which indicates that
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the value itself and the value plus all multiples of the repetition value
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are matched. Two values separated by <literal>..</literal> may be used
to indicate a range of values; ranges may also be followed with
<literal>/</literal> and a repetition value.</para>
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<para>A date specification may use <literal>~</literal> to indicate the
last day(s) in a month. For example, <literal>*-02~03</literal> means
"the third last day in February," and <literal>Mon *-05~07/1</literal>
means "the last Monday in May."</para>
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<para>The seconds component may contain decimal fractions both in
the value and the repetition. All fractions are rounded to 6
decimal places.</para>
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<para>Either time or date specification may be omitted, in which
case the current day and 00:00:00 is implied, respectively. If the
second component is not specified, <literal>:00</literal> is
assumed.</para>
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<para>Timezone can be specified as the literal string <literal>UTC</literal>, or
the local timezone, similar to the supported syntax of timestamps (see above), or the timezone
in the IANA timezone database format (also see above).</para>
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<para>The following special expressions may be used as shorthands for longer normalized forms:</para>
<programlisting> minutely → *-*-* *:*:00
hourly → *-*-* *:00:00
daily → *-*-* 00:00:00
monthly → *-*-01 00:00:00
weekly → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00
yearly → *-01-01 00:00:00
quarterly → *-01,04,07,10-01 00:00:00
semiannually → *-01,07-01 00:00:00
</programlisting>
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<para>Examples for valid timestamps and their
normalized form:</para>
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<programlisting> Sat,Thu,Mon..Wed,Sat..Sun → Mon..Thu,Sat,Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Mon,Sun 12-*-* 2,1:23 → Mon,Sun 2012-*-* 01,02:23:00
Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
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Wed..Wed,Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
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Wed, 17:48 → Wed *-*-* 17:48:00
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Wed..Sat,Tue 12-10-15 1:2:3 → Tue..Sat 2012-10-15 01:02:03
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*-*-7 0:0:0 → *-*-07 00:00:00
10-15 → *-10-15 00:00:00
monday *-12-* 17:00 → Mon *-12-* 17:00:00
Mon,Fri *-*-3,1,2 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-*-01,02,03 *:30:45
12,14,13,12:20,10,30 → *-*-* 12,13,14:10,20,30:00
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mon,fri *-1/2-1,3 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-01/2-01,03 *:30:45
03-05 08:05:40 → *-03-05 08:05:40
08:05:40 → *-*-* 08:05:40
05:40 → *-*-* 05:40:00
Sat,Sun 12-05 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-12-05 08:05:40
Sat,Sun 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-*-* 08:05:40
2003-03-05 05:40 → 2003-03-05 05:40:00
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05:40:23.4200004/3.1700005 → *-*-* 05:40:23.420000/3.170001
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2003-02..04-05 → 2003-02..04-05 00:00:00
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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2003-03-05 05:40 UTC → 2003-03-05 05:40:00 UTC
2003-03-05 → 2003-03-05 00:00:00
03-05 → *-03-05 00:00:00
hourly → *-*-* *:00:00
daily → *-*-* 00:00:00
daily UTC → *-*-* 00:00:00 UTC
monthly → *-*-01 00:00:00
weekly → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00
Added docs for new timezone support added at #6788 (#6865)
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weekly Pacific/Auckland → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00 Pacific/Auckland
util-lib: make timestamp generation and parsing reversible (#3869) This patch improves parsing and generation of timestamps and calendar specifications in two ways: - The week day is now always printed in the abbreviated English form, instead of the locale's setting. This makes sure we can always parse the week day again, even if the locale is changed. Given that we don't follow locale settings for printing timestamps in any other way either (for example, we always use 24h syntax in order to make uniform parsing possible), it only makes sense to also stick to a generic, non-localized form for the timestamp, too. - When parsing a timestamp, the local timezone (in its DST or non-DST name) may be specified, in addition to "UTC". Other timezones are still not supported however (not because we wouldn't want to, but mostly because libc offers no nice API for that). In itself this brings no new features, however it ensures that any locally formatted timestamp's timezone is also parsable again. These two changes ensure that the output of format_timestamp() may always be passed to parse_timestamp() and results in the original input. The related flavours for usec/UTC also work accordingly. Calendar specifications are extended in a similar way. The man page is updated accordingly, in particular this removes the claim that timestamps systemd prints wouldn't be parsable by systemd. They are now. The man page previously showed invalid timestamps as examples. This has been removed, as the man page shouldn't be a unit test, where such negative examples would be useful. The man page also no longer mentions the names of internal functions, such as format_timestamp_us() or UNIX error codes such as EINVAL.
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yearly → *-01-01 00:00:00
annually → *-01-01 00:00:00
*:2/3 → *-*-* *:02/3:00</programlisting>
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<para>Calendar events are used by timer units, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details.</para>
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<para>Use the <command>calendar</command> command of
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-analyze</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> to validate
and normalize calendar time specifications for testing purposes. The tool also calculates when a specified
calendar event would elapse next.</para>
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<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-analyze</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refentry>
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