Journal question

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/29/2015 12:49 PM, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 06/29/2015 01:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> Somebody on a web forum, posted a very good question, that I can't
>> answer, but would like to.  In this post on systemd-commits:
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-commits/2012-July/002320.html
>> there's this statement:
>>
>> systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message
>> is misleading
>>
>> Does anybody here understand what's misleading?
> It just means that some unit (somename.service) was started and
> then the log was rotated (i.e. the log was saved with the time-date
> appended to it's name)
> and a new log started.

That's not the question.  What the original asker and I both want to 
know is, why is the message misleading?