Yesterday Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: > > Cheng Hu wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Problem 1 > > ========= > > > > This may seem absurd but I have a need to specify --start 0 or some small > > number with rrdtool create. That is, I want it to start timing from 0 or 1 > > seconds after 1970. However if I specify 0 or 1, the start time defaults > > to now. If I specify 100 say, I get an error message asking if I meant > > month 100 instead, but I don't. (If you really want to know why I need to > > do this, I've included it at the end) > > The workaround probably is to use the following format: > > "--start" "19700101 00:00" > > Note that this assumes UTC time. For Europe, use time "19700101 01:00" > > > This may not work because of internal checks in the code, in which case > you really need to change the check. That shouldn't be hard.
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