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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:04:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:40:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote at 03:20 this Saturday   
   >> (GMT):   
   >>>   
   >>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> General best practice for datetime is to store everything in UTC,   
   >>>> then only convert to timezones when displaying to the user.   
   >>>   
   >>> Which, interestingly, is something that the systemd journal does,   
   >>> but the older syslog system did not.   
   >>   
   >> To be fair, systemd is also able to parse the data and present it to   
   >> the user with the local tz.   
   >   
   > This is simplified by the fact that the systemd journal format is   
   > timezone-agnostic.   
   >   
   > This is more difficult with a text-based log format.   
      
   Most of the archived data in our system was stored as Unix time. You had   
   to remember that the program to dump it in human readable form used   
   localtime().  What the dump said happened at 13:24  might have really   
   happened at 15:24 wall clock time where the data had originated.   
      
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