I added this question to the FAQ as it frequently comes up -
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-HowdoIaccuratelygetoffsetsofmessagesforacertaintimestampusingOffsetFetchRequest
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Guozhang Wang wrote:
> The semantic of the offset API is to "r
The semantic of the offset API is to "return the latest possible offset of
the message that is appended no later than the given timestamp". For
implementation, it will get the starting offset of the log segment that is
created no later than the given timestamp, and hence if your log segment
contain
