Minor HEADSUP - "New order" for newsyslog

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Jun 14 18:46:01 GMT 2004


In the last episode (Jun 14), Garance A Drosehn said:
> At 10:00 AM +0200 6/14/04, Brad Knowles wrote:
> >At 6:41 PM -0400 2004-06-13, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> >> So, maybe something like "log.t2004f14a" instead of "log.0". I
> >> could obviously spell out the time more, but that would be an even
> >> longer suffix...
> >
> >	Could this be a configuration option?  For maximum
> >compression, maybe base64 the ctime, but for maximum readability use
> >YYYY-MM-DD?
> 
> Several people have mentioned alternate formats that they would like
> to see, so I plan to have some flexibility in the format. Since I
> have not implemented it yet, I cannot say just how flexible it might
> be...  :-)

strftime!

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	Dan Nelson
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