Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.5-1
Severity: important

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$ zdump -v Europe/London | grep 2007
Europe/London  Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2007 GMT 
isdst=0 gmtoff=0
Europe/London  Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:00:00 2007 BST 
isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
Europe/London  Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 BST 
isdst=1 gmtoff=3600
Europe/London  Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 GMT 
isdst=0 gmtoff=0

If I see a log entry with the timestamp "Oct 28 01:30:00" I have no idea
whether the corresponding log event occurred at 0130 UTC or 0230 UTC.

It would be better if timestamps were written including the current GMT
offset:

 Oct 28 01:30:00 +0100

or in UTC always:

 Oct 28 01:30:00 +0000

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-fixdso (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysklogd depends on:
ii  klogd [linux-kernel-log-daemo 1.5-1      Kernel Logging Daemon
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

sysklogd recommends no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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