Re: Syslog date/time format

From: Casper Dik (Casper.Dik@Sun.COM)
Date: 12/08/01 

To: John Kristoff <jtk@aharp.is-net.depaul.edu>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 00:34:31 +0100
From: Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>

>On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Ogle Ron (Rennes) wrote:
>> First, is this the right approach to use in changing syslogd?
>
>You could also change the hosts to use UTC time by default rather
>set them to their specific timezone. Atlhough I imagine that might
>be an unacceptable solution based on the host applications/users/

Syslog(d) already looks ate syslog() message to see whether it
needs to prepend a date/time stamp.

En enhancement to strip the timestamp of incoming messages would
be fairly simple to implement.

Casper