Re: proposals for log file format changes
Tony Sanders (sanders@BSDI.COM)
Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:35:00 --100
> Good point - it's rather problematic to make portable code that
> does that. As for me, I'll leave it up to the user to determine the
> GMT time difference, should they wish to report times in GMT. For
> backwards compatibility, the user also has to specify whether the
> log times are in GMT or local time now.
> So now the format would be
>
> host rfc931 authuser [DD/Mon/YYYY:hh:mm:ss TTT] ``request'' ddd bbbb
>
> ...where TTT is the local timezone?
I think you have it backwards, it's well known how to go from GMT to a
given timezone (and the software to do so is freely available), however,
given just a TTT it is *impossible* to get back to GMT. If you insist on
localtime (which I think is a bad idea personally, however, this is up to
the server) then at least use a numeric timezone (e.g., -0600).
--sanders