On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 06:02 , Russell Fulton wrote: > What would also be useful is some indication of the accuracy of the > clock. We don't need this in every record but it would be useful in a > file header. What do you mean by accuracy - precision to a known fraction of a second or skew from UTC? In the former case I'd like to simply make the timestamp field accept floating-point values. In the later, see below. > Also useful would be the ability to specify a time offset > fot the log file, firstly to cope with files that are not UTC and > secondly with inaccurate clocks where you happen to know the offset from > some other source. This would help when loading files of log records > into a database (or other process) for further analysis. That would be a really nice feature for a syslogd replacment: "$HOST lies about the time - adjust this much before storing the message". Chris _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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