Paranoid-minded auditor: “I need a list of all RPMs that were installed this year on these servers, stat!”
You: “OK, let’s see here…”
On a single machine:
for i in `rpm -qa`; do rpm -qi $i | grep Install | grep -q 2017 && echo $i; done
If you need to check several servers, you can use a bash “for” cycle, or pssh, or…