GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3783
KAFKA-5515: Remove date formatting from Segments Remove date formatting from `Segments` and use the `segementId` instead. Add tests to make sure can load old segments. Rename old segment dirs to new formatting at load time. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka kafka-5515 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3783.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3783 ---- commit 2a6220f3d8302e2edcd78de666cb1f4a4909b0e3 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-09-04T12:29:12Z blah commit c62b086d5a46f4df91fb166f958d407b11bb9942 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-09-04T13:05:36Z use segment id rather than date ---- ---