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icon5.gif   Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by David Wallis on Tue Oct 27 16:00:03 2020 
    icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Oct 27 16:15:26 2020 
       icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by David Wallis on Tue Oct 27 16:37:07 2020 
          icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Oct 27 16:49:53 2020 
          icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Oct 27 17:07:00 2020 
             icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by David Wallis on Tue Oct 27 17:45:29 2020 
                icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Oct 27 21:59:03 2020 
                   icon2.gif   Re: Create entry from command line - override Date?, posted by David Wallis on Tue Oct 27 22:24:18 2020 
Message ID: 69253     Entry time: Tue Oct 27 16:37:07 2020     In reply to: 69252     Reply to this: 69254   69255
Icon: Reply  Author: David Wallis  Author Email: wallis@aps.anl.gov 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: V3.1.4-ba84827 
Subject: Re: Create entry from command line - override Date? 

Hi Stefan, thanks! Does the Date field need to be the first field in each entry? I can see adding a "termpory" field called "Orig Date", upload the old entries, then edit the file(s), delete the Date field, and rename Orig Date to Date. Will that work?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

You have to manually manipulate the logbook files YYMMDDa.log where you find the date at the top like:

MID@$: 1
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:38:09 +0300 <==== change here !!!!
Author: Stefan
Type: General
Category: 
Subject: CURL test
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