My usage is counter to your assumptions below. I run every hour to connect to 1,000 instruments (1,500 in 12 months) dispersed over the entire western US and Alaska. I append log messages for all runs from a day to a single file. This is an important debugging tool for us. We have mostly VSAT and CDMA connections for remote instruments, but many other variations. Small bandwidth, large latency, and potentially large backlogs of data means we can run for a couple days catching up with an instrument - rare, but it happens. The current timestamping is a PAIN for us to automatically parse. A change as proposed here is very simple, but would be VERY useful. Right now, we have 116 gigabytes of wget log files.
Jim On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Micah Cowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Steven M. Schweda wrote: > > From: Micah Cowan > > > >>> - tms = time_str (NULL); > >>> + tms = datetime_str (NULL); > > > >> Does anyone think there's any general usefulness for this sort of > >> thing? > > > > I don't care much, but it seems like a fairly harmless change with > > some benefit. Of course, I use an OS where a directory listing which > > shows date and time does so using a consistent and constant format, > > independent of the age of a file, so I may be biased. > > :) > > Though honestly, what this change buys you above simply doing "date; > wget", I don't know. I think maybe I won't bother, at least for now. > > >> Though if I were considering such a change, I'd probably just have wget > >> mention the date at the start of its run, rather than repeat it for each > >> transaction. Obviously wouldn't be a high-priority change... :) > > > > That sounds reasonable, except for a job which begins shortly before > > midnight. > > I considered this, along with the unlikely >24-hour wget run. > > But, since any specific transaction is unlikely to take such a long > time, the spread of the run is easily deduced by the start and end > times, and, in the unlikely event of multiple days, counting time > regressions. > > - -- > Micah J. Cowan > Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... > http://micah.cowan.name/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHAIP67M8hyUobTrERCFFIAJ9Pltuwqr0FeOtlwuFPotKxoBa6TgCeKb2l > dtRfakFDQ47qcUJJFKXPVwY= > =t50d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
