Lennart Poettering
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When displaying log data we deal with two kind of timestamps: the one we use for display (typically the source timestamp if available), and the one we use internally (typically the reception timestamp of journald). The user-facing output modes generally use the display timestamp, the ones intended for further processing (i.e. json + export outputs) do not, and directly query the timestamps of the entry, ignoring the source. This gets a bit confusing, since it's not always clear why we use which timestamp where. Let's address that by renaming the generic "ts" parameter/variable to "display_ts" to emphasize that the stored timestamp are "corrected" timestamps for display only. No real code change, just some renaming.
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