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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: year value for ausearch?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:24:32 -0400
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On Thursday 29 April 2010 02:50:02 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 00:39 -0500, LC Bruzenak wrote:
> > Just got word back from a non-US fielded system that the ausearch -ts
> > DAY/MONTH/YEAR doesn't work, e.g. :
> > % ausearch -ts 04/29/2010
> > says that the year value is invalid
> > 
> > but
> > % ausearch -ts 04/29/10 works.
> > 
> > Something with locale? It's F10 audit.

Yes, exactly.
 
> Sorry I meant MONTH/DAY/YEAR as in the example.
> 
> Looking at the code it appears to use the locale's format, so it is
> likely I will need to change the ausearch input to match.?.

Yes. It should be documented in the --start --end portion of the man page. 
What the exact format is for the locale you are in is not covered.

-Steve