From 54adf8b122ef84c08c9127e2bcf51dbf54011169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document restricted time parsing when using the daemon. -- Florian Forster git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk@2077 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- program/doc/rrdfetch.pod | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/program/doc/rrdfetch.pod b/program/doc/rrdfetch.pod index 0052aa65..49b8fc2f 100644 --- a/program/doc/rrdfetch.pod +++ b/program/doc/rrdfetch.pod @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ For a list of accepted formats, see the B<-l> option in the L manual. rrdtool fetch --daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock /var/lib/rrd/foo.rrd AVERAGE +Please note that due to thread-safety reasons, the time specified with B<-s> +and B<-e> cannot use the complex forms described in +L<"AT-STYLE TIME SPECIFICATION">. The only accepted arguments are "simple +integers". Positive values are interpreted as seconds since epoch, negative +values (and zero) are interpreted as relative to I. So "1272535035" refers +to "09:57:15 (UCT), April 29th 2010" and "-3600" means "one hour ago". + =back =head2 RESOLUTION INTERVAL -- 2.30.2