David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, when I first looked at it. As is often the case with Dan, I just
> disagree. It's not straight text in the sense I mean; it's not human
> readable. Of all the strange choices Dan's made that I've encountered
> in working with qmail, this is the first one that I fail completely to
> understand. All the others, I see the tradeoffs and I see why he chose
> as he did, even if I might have chosen otherwise. This one makes zero
> sense. It's non-functional. It doesn't connect to the way I work.
syslog timestamps are amazingly annoying to try to parse. TAI64 is
trivial to parse. This is a significant improvement.
ISO date/time format would also have been easy to parse, and I would have
been slightly happier with that, but TAI64 is definitely a *huge*
improvement over syslog if you want to do anything at all automated with
the logs.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
