John, Your comments are very helpful. I will take the datetime stamp as the way to go. I don't have a need to throw away the time info, it is
You said: >What do you do if servers are in different >timezones? This is all inhouse in a non-daylight savings country and would not be an issue You also said: >Any chance of your using ISO standard format >for representing dates? I think I have very little control over the actual logfile data. I seem to be able to control what info it collects, but I don't think I can change the formatting. Thanks, Clint -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
