Author: Anand Buddhdev Date: To: Dean Brooks CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] TZ logging buglet
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:36:25AM -0500, Dean Brooks wrote:
> Well, to speak for those on the other side, I prefer our logfiles
> to be in local timezone. While GMT is universal, we do 99% of our
> logfile analysis with respect to local timezones, and it would be
> horribly obnoxious to always have to convert timezones, especially
> when looking through thousands of logfile entries.
Exim can write the log in UTC, and then it's a simple matter of
converting from UTC to any timezone. The logfile can be shared
among different timezones, and each viewer can view the logs files
in their own time zone, by passing the logs through a converter
utility, that honours the TZ variable. And then, someone can view
the logs in _any_ timezone, simply by setting the variable accordingly.
