I understood what you meant. The reason is that is was filed as an enhancement request to Log4j 2.0 with a patch so it was added. Logback is an independent project from Log4j and doesn't necessarily clone every feature, especially since Log4j 2 is actively being developed and new features are being added to it. If you want the feature added to Logback you are free to make a patch and contribute it.

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