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Subject: Re: [RFC] Prepend timestamp in msgbuf
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In message <20111014085609.GA3799@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:

>1) would it be possible to prepend those timestamps to the actual console
>output and not only to the output of demsg? maybe via a sysctl toggle?

The kernel does not know enough about timezones to emit anything
but UTC timestamps.

>2) my dmesg output contains a lot of these entries: "<118>"

These are magic markers for syslogd(8) specifying priority.

>3) roughly the first 30 lines of my dmesg output have the timestamp "[1.0]".
>would it be possible to have more accuracy there?

No, because we don't know the time until we've found the RTC chip.

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