Re: [Fetchmail-users] time stamp format in log

[Peter P. <ro...@ri...>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:17:51AM -0500, joea- lists wrote:
> 
> > Am 28.01.22 um 21:43
> > joea‑ lists:
> >> I'd prefer to see time stamps in the fetchmail log in 24 hr format,
> but I 
> > see this:
> >>
> >> fetchmail: 6.4.21 querying imap.AAAA.com (protocol IMAP) at Fri 28
> Jan 2022 
> > 03:35:22 PM EST: poll completed
> >> fetchmail: sleeping at Fri 28 Jan 2022 03:35:22 PM EST for 120
> seconds
> >>
> >> Did not find a time format in man pages or via searching the wilds.
> >>
> >> It is probably right under my nose.  Or will be once someone tells
> me how.
> > 
> > Yes, it is a system standard feature that people appear to be
> oblivious
> > of, so is not documented in fetchmail. See:
> > 
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#LC_TIME:_date_and_time_format
> <‑
> > grarpamp watch this
> > 
> > locale(7) manual page.
> > 
> 
> No change.  Perhaps there is a "local" setting for fetchmail?  Seems
> there
> should be but if there is, it has escaped my efforts to find it.  Easy
> to do
> it seems. 
> 
> Other logs and terminal display all show 24hr format.with no
> alterations
> to environment settings.
> 
> I tried changing /etc/locale.conf and think I caused
> it to take effect (via "localectl"), and restarted fetchmail, but no
> change.

If you run fetchmail using a systemd service file, try adding
something like:

  Environment=LC_TIME=....

...specifying the name of the locale you want fetchmail to use.
Then restart the fetchmail systemd service.

If this doesn't work, try using LC_ALL instead of LC_TIME, or
trying to figure out whether anything else sets an LC_ALL
environment variable to override your LC_TIME setting.

G'luck,
Peter

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