Re: Time from Mike Meyer on 1996-04-04 (www-logging@w3.org from April 1996)

From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:50:25 PST
To: www-logging@w3.org
Message-Id: <19960403.7C4C688.14631@contessa.phone.net>

> >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

Received on Thursday, 4 April 1996 01:58:57 UTC