On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:17 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: > > Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting > > program itself? > > The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log > or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp > may be used instead of the local time. As the syslog protocol defines > that timestamps are localtime, without any specification of what > timezone localtime actually is, the TZ environment variable of the > application calling syslog() will affect the timestamp placed in the > log.
aha! there you go, mine doesn't but maybe yours does? Gord -- tic toc
