I run docker images and get something like this:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
docker.io/postgres latest a7d662bede59 2 weeks ago 265.3 MB
docker.io/ubuntu latest 91e54dfb1179 2 weeks ago 188.3 MB
Look at CREATED column. I want to know what image created earlier with hours, minutes, seconds. Similar with containers, for command docker ps -a. How to view exact dates?
Use docker inspect:
docker inspect -f '{{ .Created }}' IMAGE_OR_CONTAINER
From: Exact times in "docker ps" and "docker images"
You can use the --format parameter to output CreatedAt instead of CreatedSince:
docker images --format "table {{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}\t{{.ID}}\t{{.CreatedAt}}\t{{.Size}}"
See the command line reference for more info.
I think the best way would be to run docker inspect IMAGE_OR_CONTAINER, then pipe the output to grep to filter the results to what you really want.
If you only want to know when it started, run
docker inspect IMAGE_OR_CONTAINER | grep -i created
... which results in the following output:
"Created": "2015-09-18T01:46:51.471641483Z",
That's pretty clean.
... you could do the same for "started":
docker inspect IMAGE_OR_CONTAINER | grep -i started
... which results in the following output:
"StartedAt": "2015-09-18T01:46:51.79789586Z"
In addition to Dag's answer, you can permanently change the format of the output from docker images by adding your custom format to your ~/.docker/config.json file:
"imagesFormat": "table {{.Repository}}\\t{{.Tag}}\\t{{.ID}}\\t{{.Size}}\\t{{.CreatedAt}}"
