[Dancer-users] UTC timestamp for logger_format

[David Precious]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 21:30:19 +0100
Alex C <calyx238 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed that Dancer gets its timestamps using localtime(). I prefer
> to have all my logs in UTC.
> 
> Please can I suggest the following patch to Dancer::Logger::Abstract
> to provide an option for this?
> 
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ sub format_message {
>          t => sub { Encode::decode(setting('charset') || 'utf8',
>                                    POSIX::strftime( "%d/%b/%Y
> %H:%M:%S", localtime )) },
>          T => sub { POSIX::strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime
> ) },
> +        U => sub { POSIX::strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gmtime  ) },
>          P => sub { $$ },
>          L => sub { $level },
>          D => sub {

That sounds pretty sane and worthwhile, I'd support that change.

If you would like to be credited as an author via GitHub, feel free to
submit a pull request with it; if not, I'll make that change soon,
assuming other devs agree (it's such a simple and sensible addition I
see no reason why anyone would disagree :) ).


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