Thank you for the KIP. The current proposal has the limitation that it uses a duration syntax for representation of a timestamp. Also, the syntax relies on the locale and timezone of the caller machine. This makes it difficult to share the output with others. As an example, let's say you want to share the state of the quorum with me which was captured but "3s ago" gives me no information on when it was executed.
Alternatively, may I suggest introducing a parameter called "--datetime-format=" which takes as value the ISO-8601 [1] format and prints the timestamp based on the provided format. It would solve the problem of readability (epochs are hard to read!) as well as the problem of portability of output across machines. What do you think? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 -- Divij Vaidya On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 6:10 PM Federico Valeri <fedeval...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I'd like to start a new discussion thread on KIP-927: Improve > the kafka-metadata-quorum output. > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-927%3A+Improve+the+kafka-metadata-quorum+output > > This KIP is small and proposes to add a new optional flag to have a > human-readable timestamp output. > > Thank you! > > Br > Fede >
