The basics are worked out for the repo status plugins.

src/flashbake/plugins/lastlog.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from flashbake.plugins import AbstractMessagePlugin
 import subprocess
+import datetime
 
 class LastLog(AbstractMessagePlugin):
     def __init__(self, plugin_spec):
@@ -12,9 +13,20 @@ def addcontext(self, message_file, config):
         colon to the variable x.'''
         x = [s for s in llog for i in s if target in i] 
 
-        for i in range(len(x)):
-            message_file.write("{0} {1} {2} {3} {4} {5}\n".format(x[i][0], x[i][3], x[i][4], x[i][5], x[i][8], x[i][6]))
-
+        #for i in range(len(x)):
+        #    message_file.write("{0} {1} {2} {3} {4} {5}\n".format(x[i][0], x[i][3], x[i][4], x[i][5], x[i][8], x[i][6]))
+        #for i in x:
+        #    print(i[8]) 
+        for i in x:
+            date_placement = [i[3], i[4], i[5], i[6], i[8]]
+            y = ' '.join(date_placement)
+            #print(date_placement)
+            past24 = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(hours=24)
+            #if datetime.datetime(*date_placement[2:4]) <= past24:
+            #    print(i)
+            if datetime.datetime.strptime(y, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y") >= past24:
+            #    print(i)
+                message_file.write(f'Most recent lastlog entries: \n{i[0]} {i[3]} {i[4]} {i[5]} {i[6]} {i[8]}')
     def checklog(self):
         last = subprocess.run(["lastlog"], capture_output=True,
                 text=True).stdout.strip("\n")