________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eda Ercan [[email protected]]
Is there any specific reason for making log timestamps in UTC, not in local time? I've seen this line in logging wiki page. . The timestamp must be in Universal Time (UTC) not local system time. "yyyy-mm-ddThh:MM:ss.ffffffZ": I am thinking of changing format to local time, to make timestamps easier to understand, but not sure if this will have any side effects. ________________________________________ UTC is used so that if the logs of two systems in different time zones must be compared (because the call travels between them), you do not go insane. In addition, the "siptrace-merge" and "merge-logs" programs will not work correctly if different logs use different time zones. A further benefit is that if a customer-support engineer is remotely diagnosing a system, he does not have to always be aware of the time zone of that system. Additional difficulties arise in logging when the system switches to/from "daylight savings" or "summer" time -- the times in the log do not increase uniformly. Dale _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/
