I know two ways to do this. Either way you do need some kind of sysadmin status.

Stefan, Andreas, close your eyes for the next sentence.

1.  Set the computer/server clock to 5th October, make the entry, set the clock back again.

2.  Make the entry as normal, then go into the logbook directory and find today's 130912a.log entry - now create a new 131005a.log file, and paste in the relivant entry into this - not forgetting to change the day and date at the top.  Save the file.  Ensure that 131005a.log has the correct permissions and ownership (compare with all the other files) - you do mean you're using linux, didn't you.  Cannot answer for what to do/happen with Windows.

Now I too have this issue - there is one entry I want to keep at the very top of the list until a certain date has passed.  The way that Stefan/Andreas may offer probably will work, but I've never tried it - which is that the entry goes into today's log file, but has a "entry date" category.  I don't know if that would keep the entry at the top of the list until the 5th October has passed.  As I don't want to have an "Entry date" category, I resort to one of the two methods above.

The fact that the ID numbers become out of sequence doesn't seem to affect the performance of ELOG at all in my perhaps rather more extensive experience than the developers would have wanted me to try.

Is there a way to post a logbook entry to a future dated logbook file?  I've searched through the user manual for forward dating but can't seem to find anything.  As an example at my office, a user wants to add a personal entry stating they will be absent from work on October 5th and I would like that entry information written to the 131005a.log file instead of the current days log.

 Hi Andreas,

we would prefer only admin users to be able to remove user accounts.

I have just tested the Remove user command with a regular user account and get this error " Error: Command "Remove user" not allowed" so it looks like users can't remove their own account, so that is OK.

Thanks

Mark.

Andreas

Is there a way to remove the "Remove user" button from non-Amin users config page?

BTW Stefan ELOG is a Great Solution!

Thanks

Mark. 

 One hour adrift at this time of the year sounds like daylight saving.  Or compensation thereof.  What is your computer clock set to (not what time the clock reads)?

Personally I think it rather naughty that [at least older] Windoze automatically sets the clock one hour forward the first reboot after the spring switch forward, and the same in the autumn back.  What if you'd already done it, like all the rest of the clocks in the house?

Does anyone have a method to query the log file?  I wish to automate a summary report based on a defined timeframe (8hr shift) and deliver a report to the owners/managers of the logbook. 

maybe even generate the summary report as an HTML entery within the logbook, encapsulating the enteries queried with the hyperlinks intact to the entries in question.

Anyone have something like this? Hate to recreate the wheel. I will share if I come up with something