Re: [log4perl-devel] Timezone in log messages

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, J. David Blackstone wrote:

>   And as a bonus, I figured out how to cheat and set this in my configuration file:
>
> log4perl.DateFormat.GMTIME = sub { $Log::Log4perl::DateFormat::GMTIME = 1 }

Unbelievable :).

>   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 think I might have to fight a small political battle to explicitly set a program to log in UTC rather than local time zone, but I don't think anyone will notice or care if it's done in that config file. :)  (Which is why I worked so hard to figure out how to make Oracle insert its timestamps in UTC for me.)

Logging in UTC makes a lot of sense, especially if you're running
servers in multiple time zones and need to consolidate the logs later
on.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...