On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Thanks, Rainer! I didn't know of the timezone object. >> >> > It's new, I think I implemented it monday ;) > > >> Is there a way one could use it to convert a timestamp to UTC? And this >> resolve Eugene's initial problem? >> >> > no. It's just like the doc says: its a helper for parsers, so that they > know TZ offsets when a TZ string is given. Of course, it could be extended, > but it's a bit tricky with the bad state of Linux TZ information. In > essence, one needs to duplicate what the system provides in a way that's > unusable for multithreaded apps (there were a couple of mailing list > discussions on this topic, you also find it on the Internet. In a notshell, > all TZ API calls rely on the TZ environment variable which is slow and > problematic). > > well, thinking a bit more about it. What one could do is 1) convert given timestamp to time_t 2) apply offset info to it, so we now hat a time_t in actual UTC 3) convert it back to a syslog date, which then also is UTC someone up for a patch? Rainer > Rainer > >> Best regards, >> Radu >> -- >> Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics >> Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Rainer Gerhards < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Eugene Istomin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Can you describe a little bit two 8.3.4 changelog lines? >> > > >> > > + new parser config object — permits to define custom parser >> definitions >> > > >> > >> > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/configuration/parser.html >> > >> > >> > > + new tzinfo config object — permits to define time zone offsets >> > > >> > >> > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/configuration/timezone.html >> > >> > >> > HTH >> > Rainer >> > _______________________________________________ >> > rsyslog mailing list >> > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> > DON'T LIKE THAT. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> > > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
