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Timestamp Optimization Tools

daniel333
Builder

All,

Any cool tools out there for optimization and tuning of time stamps? Like a regex101.com style site but like for strptime?

thanks,
-Daniel

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vliggio
Communicator

http://strftime.net/ - although it has a few missing options you might find in strptime, it's a good way to play with time formats.

And as an aside, if you're using rsyslog, comment out the $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat line. It'll set your timestamps to RFC3339 standard format...

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