Time. What is time anyway? The easiest way to solve your problem is to
punt and log everything in high resolution UTC. Or you could log
everything with high resolution local time (including TZ offset). Or you
could set your entire logging infrastructure use UTC only. At least
then you wouldn't have the problem of the wobbling hour.
All that aside, there is already an enhancement request for a high
resolution $now but it's a low priority item with not much momentum.
Such a thing would return server local time regardless of the timezone
setting on the server (which would of course be UTC).
The current $now (as you've discovered) is a low resolution string, not
an actual timestamp that can be cast with a format.
Regards,
On 11/2/20 12:14 PM, Nicholas Brown via rsyslog wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a useful monatomic timestamp property that can be used for
rate-limiting calculations in rules.
'parse_time($timegenerated)' mostly works, but when there are local time
adjustments happen like daylight saving and time goes backwards.
https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/configuration/properties.html#system-properties
https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/rainerscript/functions/rs-parse_time.html
A $timegenerated-utc property would not have daylight saving timezone
issues, but does not appear to be available. Similar $now-utc is available,
but it does not have second resolution to be useful to convert to a unix
timestamp with parse_time().
Is there a high precision utc timestamp property available?
Thanks,
Nick
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