I think we all pretty much agree that year and GMT offset are important to
include. However I do not think CLF is that interesting for a "mail"
processing system. I would prefer to see something more "mail-ish" like;
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:54:45 -0500 (EST)
Randall
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Brian L. Heess wrote:
: On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, John Relph wrote:
:
: > At 10:34 PM 1/25/98 -0500, Brian L. Heess wrote:
: > >>The reason I wrote this is that I have been using the same log for about
: > >>40-5 years and for that in reading the log, the dates wrap around at
: > >>the new year... :)
: > >
: > >PLEASE use a valid UNIX (aka RFC-compliant) long date format, not this
: > >made-up one.
: >
: > If we're going to argue date formats, I think the dates should be
: > sortable. In which case, they should always have the format:
: >
: > YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
: >
: > so that your favorite sort program can sort the log entries.
: >
: > But in actuality, I don't really care much, as long as I can tell when
: > something happened.
:
: Understood, but the point of my change to the format was to make it
: something that is already used, (CLF) that had the year in it.
:
: I am not going to release this patch yet, as I am now working to get the
: TZ to be the GMT offset, and hopefully get it ALWAYS there (ie: -0500).
:
: Cheers!
:
: -Brian
:
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