On Thu, 02.10.14 12:51, Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:11:39PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Thu, 02.10.14 11:56, Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:36:46AM +0200, Jan Synacek wrote: > > > > Introduce option to display time in UTC. > > > > > > Does "TZ=UTC journalctl" not do the right thing? A quick test here > > > suggests that it does. That seems preferable to teaching individual > > > tools to special-case UTC. > > > > Not sure i agree. --utc really should only have an effect on our own > > output, and that's a good thing. If you set $TZ you end up changing > > much much more, for example the logic of glibc's own syslog() and what > > it passes on, and we shouldn't influence that. > > True, but in the case of journalctl, which just queries and outputs > journal data, what would TZ=UTC affect that you *wouldn't* want? > journalctl shouldn't be calling syslog().
Well, who knows what is ultimately called. I mean, we fork off a $PAGER, which can be almost anything. We call into libraries and whatnot. All I am saying is that I think there's great value to keeping this as local as possible, and have this only effect the log display we do and nothing else. And beyond that: an environment variable is in many ways awful API, and non-discoverable. A command line switch is a lot more discoverable, as everybody knows to look for them in --help and in man pages. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
