Re: [Syslog] Small draft for Syslog File Storage?

Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com> Thu, 11 November 2010 16:18 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:18:54 -0800
From: Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [Syslog] Small draft for Syslog File Storage?
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Hi Simon,

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Oh, and please use a timestamp format that embeds the year!  How about
> the RFC 3339 format?  I hate how it is impossible to know what year a
> log entry was written on modern Linux systems.

Take a look at RFC 5424.  The timestamp is from RFC 3339.

Thanks,
Chris