33031 – emerge.log should use readable timestamps

Bug 33031 - emerge.log should use readable timestamps

Summary: emerge.log should use readable timestamps

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-11-08 12:50 UTC by Richard Garand
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Richard Garand 2003-11-08 12:50:10 UTC

The timestamps in /var/log/emerge should be readable. It's not that hard to do, and if you're 
worried about programs parsing it, date can use readable times easily, but I had to search the info 
pages to make it tell me when I last upgraded libxml2 (that was the second time - the first time I 
gave up before I could find it in the manpage). 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Thomas Eckert 2003-11-08 13:18:42 UTC

have a look at
  app-portage/genlop
That does all you need.

-> INVALID

Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-28 05:00:49 UTC

The start of any merge set has a current local time.
The current format is very easily machine parsable.
I'll work on adding more human-friendly output though.