is syslogd logging locale independent?



just wanna know whether syslogd logs messages in a locale-independent fashion.


i want to read the date/time format from log files.
normally the date/time is of the form jan 23 04:11:30.
can this date/time information found in log files be different for different locales??

is logging locale independent?



just wanna know whether syslogd logs messages in a locale-independent fashion.

i want to read the date/time format from log files.
normally the date/time is of the form jan 23 04:11:30.
can this date/time information found in log files be different for different locales?

if your version of syslogd calls any of: localtime, mktime, asctime, ctime then yes.
all of these call tzset which invokes locale. by locale i assume you mean timezone changes.

once started, syslogd will use the same timezone setting as long as it is up and running. the only thing that could cause a problem is how syslogd gets started.
if it doesn't see your system's equivalent of a tz variable setting during process creation then each os has it's own response to setting a default behavior for a missing "tz". example: minus tz, hpux uses est5edt4