Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:27:21 +0000 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Add option -Z to syslogd(8) to use ISO 8601 timestamps Message-ID: <CAOc73CCzOoiq9YVC5DJgODC7yF21LCxNXR7aNfKc2FemGOR2cA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone, Please review my patch to add the -Z option to syslogd(8) to use ISO 8601 timestamps in UTC: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14918 This patch was taken from OpenBSD, and is the first of many features from RFC5424 that we should be looking to add to syslogd(8) in FreeBSD. BACKGROUND: I have been centralising my logs lately, and found that they had different timezones, but the RFC3164 syslog timestamp format does not include the timezone. The servers had their timezones set to UTC, whilst the workstations had their timezones set to the local timezone. This made it difficult to correlate events across machines, as my log analysis tool had simultaneous events entered with timestamps many hours apart. I have added a few people to the review who last touched syslogd(8) - sorry to those people, just trying to get reviewers :) Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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