From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-smarden-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: svlogd localtime option
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:50:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407050947430.27250-100000@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040704054801.5939.qmail@f950a45d36ced0.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:53:15PM -0700, Jared Rhine wrote:
> >
> > I appreciate that UTC-based servers are useful in a global setting,
> > but it's a hindrance to good systems administration in many contexts.
> > And there's always the internal politics, where coworkers complain.
>
> Using TAI or UTC has the great advantage that logs are sortable after
> merging, this is not guaranteed when using localtime.
And the reason they aren't sortable is that times can be ambiguous in
local time - one hour occurs twice each year (in many places). Ambiguous
times in log files are not such a good idea.
> There have been feature requests for a tai64nlocal alike program.
Has anyone knocked one of these together?
---
Charlie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-05 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 19:53 Jared Rhine
2004-07-04 5:47 ` Gerrit Pape
2004-07-05 13:50 ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2004-07-09 8:24 ` Jared Rhine
2004-07-09 8:49 ` Ian Stokes-Rees
2004-07-09 9:04 ` Uffe Jakobsen
2004-07-09 14:30 ` Charlie Brady
2004-07-11 19:11 ` Gerrit Pape
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