Wietse Venema wrote:
> You could also override the timezone in main.cf:
> 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
>     # Take output from "postconf -d import_environment", then update TZ
>     import_environment = .... TZ=whatever ...

That is a pretty interesting idea.  I might do this to set TZ=UTC for here
example while while leaving the rest of the system in local time.
Maybe.  It's very good to know of this possibility.

> > For machine-readable output, try "postqueue -j", which reports dates in
> > epoch time.  For example:
> > 
> >     $ postqueue -j |
> >       jq -r '[.queue_id, (.arrival_time | tostring), .sender] | join(" ")'
> 
> I used this:
> 
>     jq -r '[.queue_id, (.arrival_time | todate), .sender] | join(" ")'
> 
> Which formats the date as iso8601 (yyyy-mm-dd-Thh:mm:ssZ

I had completely forgotten about the possibility of json output.
That's just generally good to know for programatic use.

Thanks!
Bob

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