Comment 3 for bug 1154207
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| Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote Re: [Bug 1154207] Re: console log should have an option to add timestamps | #3 |
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Excerpts from James Hunt's message of 2013-03-20 10:57:23 UTC:
> I can see this would be useful, but since the data the logger receives
> is byte-oriented, adding timestamp data certainly wouldn't look very
> pretty. It would also change the semantics of the stanza and break all
> the log tests since they currently assume the log contains only what is
> output from the jobs.
>
> Rather than adding timestamps, my strong preference would be to support
> 'console syslog' (bug 885202) such that timestamps or time offsets are
> added "for free".
>
Except they're lost in early boot, when they might do a lot of good in
finding timing problems.
The tests can be fixed. Reading and looking for newlines to know when
to add a timestamp is not hard. This seems trivial to do as long as we
have easy access to the system clock, which I'm not entirely sure we do.