Re: Time

• To: www-logging@w3.org
• Subject: Re: Time
• From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
• Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:50:25 PST
• From mwm@contessa.phone.net Thu Apr 4 01: 58:57 1996
• In-Reply-To: <9604032152.AA15892@zorch.w3.org>
• Message-Id: <19960403.7C4C688.14631@contessa.phone.net>
• Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

> >Is the time field in GMT or local time?  If it's "loggers choice", should
> >there be a way in embed that info in the file?
> 
> I think it should be GMT. Otherwise there will be all sorts of problems trying
> to collate logfiles from servers distribute3d across multiple time zones. This
> would be a real pain in the butt for the cache notification protocol in
> particular.

I think it should be loggers choice. I decided to go GMT on my
proprietary format, and getting away from the headaches that created
in correlating events between other system logs & the httpd logs was
one of the motivations for rewriting the logfile format to ELF.

	<mike

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