logFile until flag issue

we were adding a negative duration in podman events, causing inputs like
-5s to be correct and 5s to be incorrect.

fixes #11158

Signed-off-by: cdoern <cdoern@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/util/utils.go b/pkg/util/utils.go
index 774590f44..37a00c25c 100644
--- a/pkg/util/utils.go
+++ b/pkg/util/utils.go
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ func WriteStorageConfigFile(storageOpts *stypes.StoreOptions, storageConf string
 // ParseInputTime takes the users input and to determine if it is valid and
 // returns a time format and error.  The input is compared to known time formats
 // or a duration which implies no-duration
-func ParseInputTime(inputTime string) (time.Time, error) {
+func ParseInputTime(inputTime string, since bool) (time.Time, error) {
 	timeFormats := []string{time.RFC3339Nano, time.RFC3339, "2006-01-02T15:04:05", "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999",
 		"2006-01-02Z07:00", "2006-01-02"}
 	// iterate the supported time formats
@@ -542,7 +542,10 @@ func ParseInputTime(inputTime string) (time.Time, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return time.Time{}, errors.Errorf("unable to interpret time value")
 	}
-	return time.Now().Add(-duration), nil
+	if since {
+		return time.Now().Add(-duration), nil
+	}
+	return time.Now().Add(duration), nil
 }
 
 // OpenExclusiveFile opens a file for writing and ensure it doesn't already exist
diff --git a/pkg/util/utils_test.go b/pkg/util/utils_test.go
index 027acbdab..35322c7ea 100644
--- a/pkg/util/utils_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/utils_test.go
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ func TestPeriodAndQuotaToCores(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseInputTime(t *testing.T) {
-	tm, err := ParseInputTime("1.5")
+	tm, err := ParseInputTime("1.5", true)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("expected error to be nil but was: %v", err)
 	}