Re: [log4perl-devel] Timezone in log messages

[J. D. B. <jd...@go...>]

On December 7, 2006, J. David Blackstone wrote:

> On December 7, 2006, Mike Schilli wrote:
>=20
> > There's an undocumented feature:
> >=20
> >     $Log::Log4perl::DateFormat::GMTIME =3D 1;
> >=20
> > will use UTC instead of local time.
>=20
>   Thanks, Mike!  That's just what I was looking for!

  And as a bonus, I figured out how to cheat and set this in my configurati=
on file:

log4perl.DateFormat.GMTIME =3D sub { $Log::Log4perl::DateFormat::GMTIME =3D=
 1 }

  That's probably an abuse of the configuration file sub notation, using a =
side effect instead of returning a value, but it works. :)  And somehow I t=
hink I might have to fight a small political battle to explicitly set a pro=
gram to log in UTC rather than local time zone, but I don't think anyone wi=
ll notice or care if it's done in that config file. :)  (Which is why I wor=
ked so hard to figure out how to make Oracle insert its timestamps in UTC f=
or me.)

jdb