Regarding [PATCH] sysklogd: add -Z option to adjust message timezones

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Feb 4 12:37:09 UTC 2020


>>>>> "Venkat" == Venkat K <venkat.konamki at gmail.com> writes:

 > Hi Busybox team,
 > I was using busybox version 1.15.2. One of my requirement  is I need a
 > timestamp in syslog message as localtime zone instead of GMT. I found below
 > patch link to adjust the timezones.
 > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2017-May/085437.html .

 >> * +		if (G.adjustTimezone && strptime(msg, "%b %e %T", &nowtm)) {
 > *>* +			now = mktime(&nowtm) - timezone;
 > *>* +			timestamp = ctime(&now) + 4; /* skip day of week */
 > *>* +		} else {
 > *>* +			now = 0;
 > *>* +			timestamp = msg;
 > *>* +		}*


 > But i didn't get where *timezone *is defined and what it is contained, Can
 > you help us where it is defined and what it is contained.

I don't know about that patch (which hasn't been merged), but you can
run syslogd with the -t option to get it to re-timestamp syslog messages
with the timestamp using whatever timezone syslogd is running under.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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