Rutiini aloitettiin tammikuussa, ja tästä päivästä lähtien me kirjaamme kaiken.

Questions & Answers about Rutiini aloitettiin tammikuussa, ja tästä päivästä lähtien me kirjaamme kaiken.

Why do the words tästä and päivästä both have the elative -stä ending?
The postposition lähtien (starting from / since) requires the phrase before it to be in the elative case. Because tämä (this) modifies päivä (day), both words must agree and take the elative ending, resulting in tästä päivästä lähtien.
Could I use pitäen instead of lähtien in this sentence?
Yes, tästä päivästä pitäen means exactly the same thing and is perfectly correct. lähtien is generally more common in everyday Finnish, while pitäen can sound slightly more formal or literary, but they both indicate a starting point in time and require the elative case.
Why does the sentence start with the passive aloitettiin but switch to the active me kirjaamme?
The passive past tense aloitettiin (was started) is used to focus on the event itself, leaving out exactly who started the routine in January. In the second half, the speaker wants to emphasize who is responsible for the ongoing work, so they switch to the active voice and explicitly use me (we).
Why is the object kaiken rather than the base form kaikki?
kaiken is the total object form used here because the second clause is an active, affirmative sentence with a subject (me). If that second half had also been written in the passive voice (for example, kirjataan kaikki meaning 'everything is logged'), the object would have stayed in the nominative base form.

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