[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journalctl: add --utc option

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 02.10.14 11:56, Josh Triplett (josh at joshtriplett.org) wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:36:46AM +0200, Jan Synacek wrote:
> > Introduce option to display time in UTC.
> 
> Does "TZ=UTC journalctl" not do the right thing?  A quick test here
> suggests that it does.  That seems preferable to teaching individual
> tools to special-case UTC.

Not sure i agree. --utc really should only have an effect on our own
output, and that's a good thing. If you set $TZ you end up changing
much much more, for example the logic of glibc's own syslog() and what
it passes on, and we shouldn't influence that.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat