[Gluster-users] Log file timestamp

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

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Pretty much every commercial storage appliance is set at the factory to 
UTC. That's certainly true for EMC and NetApp storage devices. 
(disclaimer: I did work at EMC for seven years.)

IMO, even storage appliances and SDS built with FOSS software should use 
UTC. Honestly, why would anyone use anything else? It's an appliance, 
not a general purpose computing device.

FWIW I set pretty much everything I own — at home and at work — to UTC 
and use NTP. I set the local TZ in my shell and desktop clock of course.

I lobbied for the use of UTC in gluster logging a couple years ago, the 
community agreed, and the change was made.

As for making it configurable, I have no objection to that. IIRC I had 
no objection the last time the topic came up. File a BZ and submit a 
patch. I have no reason to believe it would not be accepted.

Oh, and we should probably agree finally on the One True Timestamp 
Format and change the source to use it!

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On 11/26/2014 08:13 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 07:31 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>> +Kaleb who implemented this feature to see if there is a way to change
>> it.
>>
>
> I am not aware of any. Since this keeps coming up quite often, I think
> it would be good to provide a configurable mechanism for specifying time
> zones in log files.
>
> -Vijay
>
>> Pranith
>> On 11/25/2014 09:04 PM, Koby, Bradley wrote:
>>> I would like to add that all other log files /var/log/messages,
>>> /var/log/syslog, /var/log/secure, etc... have the correct entries
>>> using the local timezone.   It is only the gluster log files that are
>>> off by 5 hours.
>>> Could someone point me in the right direction on configuring this?
>>>  This Gluster app resides on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com
>>> <mailto:amukherj at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     This has to be set up in the server based on what time format you
>>>     want.
>>>     I don't see any application dependency here.
>>>
>>>     ~Atin
>>>
>>>     On 11/25/2014 08:34 PM, Koby, Bradley wrote:
>>>     > Is there a way to have the gluster log files date/time stamps
>>>     use local
>>>     > timezone.   This system is in EST and the times recorded in the
>>>     logs are
>>>     > off by 5 hours.  I'm assuming logs are represented as UTC/GMT.
>>>      This is
>>>     > using Gluster 3.5.2.
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     > Thanks
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     >
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Kaleb