On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 3:49:17 PM EST Simon Josefsson wrote: > Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > > Hi, > > > > we are early in the bookworm release cycle, so I guess it's the > > perfect time to bring up this topic. > > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but perhaps now is a good time to stop > using the legacy syslog time format and use the standardized RFC 5424 > format? It is the default format in upstream rsyslog, but the default > Debian config uses the legacy format. > > Effectively, the change that I suggest is to stop putting this into > /etc/rsyslog.conf by default: > > # > # Use traditional timestamp format. > # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line. > # > $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat > > The legacy time format that is used today does not record year, timezone > or subsecond information. Compare /var/log/syslog outputs like this: > > Nov 23 21:47:31 latte jas: test > > with > > 2021-11-23T21:47:49.082799+01:00 latte jas: test > > /Simon
That seams like a reasonable change to make, but it should definitely be mentioned in NEWS for the package and the Debian release notes. Scott K
