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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] sysklogd: add -Z option to adjust message timezones
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2017-09-01 14:45:48
Message-ID: CAK1hOcNvyrA1o10HH9x3dqptPK+ajKtjo1KqJ1+fwBud3hm-uw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Shiz <hi@shiz.me> wrote:
> Some syslog() implementations like musl's[1] always send timestamps in UTC.
> This change adds a new option to syslogd, -Z, to assume incoming timestamps
> are always UTC and adjust them to the local timezone (of the syslogd) before
> logging.

I'm not sure about this.

Unfortunately, syslog() API has no defined rules on how timestamps are produced
and formatted.

How do we know that strptime(msg, "%b %e %T", &nowtm) will work to parse
timestamp?
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