Am 02.11.2026 um 14:16 schrieb Job Snijders:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 01:49:32PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
>> I would love if syslogd would default to -Z. The default timestamps
>> are just horrible to work with and lack sub second precision. Also the
>> -Z output is a lot simpler to parse and convert.
> 
> Somewhat related: tools like ts(1) use strftime(3) for the format,
> but strftime(3) does not provide an easy single character conversion
> specification for ISO8601 timestamps. You have to do something like
> 'echo hi | ts %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', which is a bit long.
> 
> Does anyone see some way to improve on this? Some options I considered:
> 
> Adding an extra option to ts(1) seems less desirable because it would
> somewhat conflict with the interface people are used to.
> 
> Maybe just changing the default format in ts to '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
> might be better?

Presenting something zulu which isn't is a recipe for disaster the same
way as using %Z in strftime may yield something meaningless like
"Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit". Ring. Ring. Ring. What happened? It
happened somewhen around twelve o'clock. Oh great I can grep the loghost
about that time regardless of the timezone you are talking about because
someone clever did not run syslogd on that loghost using the -Z command
line option. Really. Do not use 'Z'. Use '%z'.