Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:45:31 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_Sch=FCtte?= <lists@mschuette.name> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC regarding usage of ISO 8601 throughout the tree Message-ID: <4D25E39B.2050804@mschuette.name> In-Reply-To: <201101060752.32539.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20110105132155.GO23329@acme.spoerlein.net> <20110105194748.GS23329@acme.spoerlein.net> <4D250159.30108@quip.cz> <201101060752.32539.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 01/06/11 13:52, John Baldwin wrote:
>> I am using ISO8601 date + time format for years in my scripts, logs
>> etc., so it would be nice to have it on all places of FreeBSD as a
>> standard format.
> Changing the format of syslog messages is guaranteed to break ${INFINITY}
> scripts and other log parsing tools. I think that is too large of a POLA
> violation to justify.
On the other ahnd there is also a new syslog RFC which uses ISO8601
timestamps (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424) and is implemented by
syslog-ng, rsyslog and NetBSD-current.
As with most major changes the format should be configurable and use the
old format as default. But in the long term I would expect the new
format to spread (maybe just because I use it on my logserver and
already changed my parsing tools).
--
Martin
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