Re: [logs] reinventing syslog [was: Secure Central Log Host]

From: wolfgangat_private
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 03:53:00 PST

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    Hello,
    
    >> However, we have seen that the "received at" timestamp is the most
    >> valuable, especially if the devices follow syslog RFC which prohibits TZ
    >> information in the syslog time stamp...
    
    > We are planning to have an option to ignore that "no TZ permitted"
    > part of the RFC.  It is clearly broken.  The only alternative is to
    > log in UTC, but that's often inconvenient for humans.
    
    The logical solution to that problem would be to log in UTC and have
    timezone adaptions in a user interface for viewing the logs.
    
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