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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
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