Re: [Fetchmail-users] how to log date/time in daemon mode?

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Gene,

> > > > >    fetchmail [2018/09/29 17:04:41]: 2 messages for ...
> > >
> > > And whats wrong with the above format? And since I know thats my
> > > machines local time in a valid 24 hour format, I do not see any
> > > ambiguity.
>
> And that is essentially the same with an added -0400 which is the
> local EDT time zone offset from GMT.

It is still ambiguous.  :-)

    $ TZ=America/New_York date -d 2018-11-04T05:30:00Z +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'
    2018/11/04 01:30:00
    $ TZ=America/New_York date -d 2018-11-04T06:30:00Z +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'
    2018/11/04 01:30:00
    $

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Cheers, Ralph.
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