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    DateTime format in Log Files - configurable to ISO 8601 standard?

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      Daksol
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      Is is possible to configure the format of the date-time stamps which get written to logfiles?

      Logfiles in pfSense by default have date-time stamps which look like this
      Dec 20 22:13:18

      These are not optimal - they don't sort properly.
      For instance January dates have order 1, 13 then 9.

      ISO 8601 defines a better behaved time stamp, like
      2019-12-20T22:13:18Z for a date-time for UTC

      At the very least it would help to force the date values to be always two digits, that would be a bit better.

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9808

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          Daksol @jimp
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          @jimp
          Thanks. The good work on the date formats in the logfile is now live and in production on v2.5.
          Much appreciated.

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