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

[Hans C. <fo...@gm...>]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, grarpamp wrote:

>> This makes the log entries look like this:
>>
>>    fetchmail [2018/09/29 17:04:41]: 2 messages for ...
>>    fetchmail [2018/09/29 17:04:42]: reading message ...
>>
>> Here's the patch I used for 6.3.26...
>
> Try reading and adopting a valid iso8601 standard format for timestamps 
> instead of the above which are nonconformant and ambiguous in multiple 
> ways.

Feel free to change the format however you like.  This patch was a "quick
fix" for something I found annoying with the fetchmail logs... nothing
more than that.  I saw someone else with a similar need and provided an 
option.

I understand your point and it's a very good one, but I intentionally 
selected that format because it's what I want.  It gives me exactly the 
information I need and no more.  It is not ambiguous (to ME, for MY 
purposes) in any way.

Different people have different needs... so I'll amend my original 
suggestion a bit...

Someone a bit more enterprising than me could probably submit a patch with 
some kind of config file option (eg. log_timestamp) to do something 
similar.  It would be wise to also add a config file option that specified 
the format for the timestamp, with the default timestamp something more 
universally acceptable and standard than the format I used.