On 1/26/26 7:36 pm, Norman Gaywood via slurm-users wrote:

> When I attempt to filter for those exact states (using either the short
> or long flag), the output is empty:
> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed

This thing about sacct trips a lot of people (including me) up at
various times. There's a section in the man page about it:

https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html#SECTION_DEFAULT-TIME-WINDOW

For your use case:

 > WITHOUT --jobs AND WITH --state specified:
 > --starttime defaults to Now.
 > --endtime defaults to --starttime and to Now if --starttime is not
specified.

So short version is you need to specify an end time - here's an example
of your command from one of our small test systems.

17:39:16 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26
--format=JobID,State --state=completed -n | wc -l
0

17:39:20 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26
--format=JobID,State --state=completed -n --end=NOW | wc -l
1226

Hope that helps!

All the best,
Chris
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