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has caused the Debian Bug report #444765,
regarding sysklogd: Should log timestamps in UTC or include UTC offset
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Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.5-1
Severity: important
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$ zdump -v Europe/London | grep 2007
Europe/London Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 GMT
isdst=0 gmtoff=0
Europe/London Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:00:00 2007 BST
isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
Europe/London Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 BST
isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
Europe/London Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 GMT
isdst=0 gmtoff=0
If I see a log entry with the timestamp "Oct 28 01:30:00" I have no idea
whether the corresponding log event occurred at 0130 UTC or 0230 UTC.
It would be better if timestamps were written including the current GMT
offset:
Oct 28 01:30:00 +0100
or in UTC always:
Oct 28 01:30:00 +0000
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-fixdso (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sysklogd depends on:
ii klogd [linux-kernel-log-daemo 1.5-1 Kernel Logging Daemon
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
sysklogd recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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Timestamps should reflect the timezone syslogd is started in
If somebody wants this to be UTC then this should either be
the global timezone or it needs to be exported in the startup
script.
Changing the format of log files will break large amounts of
parsers and is not an option.
Regards,
Joey
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