<p>Kubectl describe pods outputs the elapsed time since pod events occurred; e.g.</p>

<pre><code>kubectl describe pods my-pod
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<p>outputs</p>

<pre><code>Events:
  FirstSeen     LastSeen        Count   From                                                        SubobjectPath                           TypeReason           Message
  ---------     --------        -----   ----                                                            -------------                           --------     ------          -------
  21s           21s             1       {default-scheduler }                                                                                    Normal               Scheduled       Successfully assigned xlxqh to gf959ad9f-cwvs
  19s           19s             1       {kubelet f959ad9f-cwvs}       spec.containers{gpu-sample-devices}     Normal               Pulling         pulling image "b.gcr.io/foo/sample:latest"
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<p>Is it possible to make kubectl describe instead output the actual time of the event?</p>

<p>You could use a combination of <a href="http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/kubectl-overview/#custom-columns" rel="noreferrer">custom columns</a> and <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/field-selectors/" rel="noreferrer">fields selector</a> - provided by kubectl - on <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.10/#event-v1-core" rel="noreferrer">event objects</a>. Example:</p>

<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>$ kubectl get events -o custom-columns=FirstSeen:.firstTimestamp,LastSeen:.lastTimestamp,Count:.count,From:.source.component,Type:.type,Reason:.reason,Message:.message \
                     --field-selector involvedObject.kind=Pod,involvedObject.name=my-pod
FirstSeen              LastSeen               Count   From                Type      Reason             Message
2020-01-21T16:30:25Z   2020-01-21T16:30:25Z   1       default-scheduler   Normal    Scheduled          Successfully assigned my-pod to 10.10.1.3
2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   1       kubelet             Normal    Pulling            Pulling image "my-image"
2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   1       kubelet             Normal    Pulled             Successfully pulled image "my-image"
2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   2020-01-21T16:30:26Z   1       kubelet             Normal    Created            Created container my-container
2020-01-21T16:30:27Z   2020-01-21T16:30:27Z   1       kubelet             Normal    Started            Started container my-container

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