Re: svlogd localtime option

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:24:03AM -0700, Jared Rhine wrote:
>   Gerrit> Using TAI or UTC has the great advantage that logs are
>   Gerrit> sortable after merging, this is not guaranteed when using
>   Gerrit> localtime.

>   Gerrit> I think it's better to let the pager used to display logs do
>   Gerrit> such jobs.
> 
> Fair enough.  But reasonable people can disagree on methods and
> practices, and not everyone uses a pager for browsing.  This one
> single issue is the sole gripe about the functionality of runit.
> 
> It's trivial for me to substitute gmtime with localtime, and my latest
> installs are working great like that.  But now I'm maintaining a fork,
> which seems silly for such a small (and useful!) change.  But if such
> an enhancement would be rejected on design grounds, it's important
> enough for me to do so.  I'd rather put that time into a patch that
> would be accepted; 

> Anyway, that's my pitch.  I tried to state it as strongly as I
> politely can.  Still your call on the design/patch acceptance issue of
> course.

I definitely prefer UTC over localtime, and have my system's clocks set
to UTC anyway, so I'm personally not that much interested.  I cannot
promise acceptance of a patch, but if this feature is added to svlogd,
it should be provided through the -ttt option I think; the documentation
should prominently mention the drawbacks of localtime timestamps.

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Thanks, Gerrit.