# system.alarm.queryStatus - any way to set the date range?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-alarm-querystatus-any-way-to-set-the-date-range/34340>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-alarm-querystatus-any-way-to-set-the-date-range/34340 "2020-04-30T22:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaveRNeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DaveRNeal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DaveRNeal)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-alarm-querystatus-any-way-to-set-the-date-range/34340/1 "2020-04-30T22:39:57Z")

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Good afternoon,

I’m wondering if there’s a way to query alarms using the system.alarm.queryStatus() function within a certain date-range. When I call it it looks like I’m only able to get alarm events from the past 8 hours or so.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-alarm-querystatus-any-way-to-set-the-date-range/34340/2 "2020-04-30T23:33:28Z")

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This function should return all current alarms for the given filters, it shouldn’t be limiting by date range.  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.alarm.queryStatus](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.alarm.queryStatus)

Are you trying to query for current alarms (`system.alarm.queryStatus`), or historic alarms (`system.alarm.queryJournal`)?  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.alarm.queryJournal](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.alarm.queryJournal)

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**Author:** ![DaveRNeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DaveRNeal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DaveRNeal)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-alarm-querystatus-any-way-to-set-the-date-range/34340/3 "2020-04-30T23:45:10Z")

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Thanks for the tip! I am indeed querying for historic alarms. I was under the impression that queryStatus and queryJournal essentially returned the same things, just separated the Active/Acknowledged/Cleared events.