# additional output in polling

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/additional-output-in-polling/12390>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 20, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/additional-output-in-polling/12390 "2013-02-20T06:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@James\_Martin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Martin)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/additional-output-in-polling/12390/1 "2013-02-20T06:20:47Z")

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I have some very long run tasks -- these include kicking off  
benchmarks they may run for a couple of hours

Generally I set these things with a 60s polling interval. I would be  
useful to have a timestamp in some of these long running jobs, one  
that included when the task started and how long it had been running.  
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to do since the remaining seconds  
on the job is already included.

Thoughts?

- James