[rt-users] Day of the week

[Matthew Seaman]

Tomáš Sára wrote:
> This shows no errors but instead of writing the day of the week into log 
> file it writes "0". I'm not sure what "localtime" is. Is it the variable 
> containing the local time? Something like:
>   my $localtime = my $now = RT::Date->new($RT::SystemUser);
>   $now->SetToNow;
> Or should I write there just "localhost"? None of this seem to work.

localtime() is a standard perl function that returns the time according to
the local timezone broken down into an array of fields: sec, min, hour,
day etc.  See: 'perldoc -f localtime' for the full story.  There's also
gmtime() which produces the UTC time in the same format.

Either of those two functions takes an optional argument which is a
timestamp expressed as 'seconds since the epoch' a.k.a. unix time --
without an argument they default to the current time.

If you just want to get a timestamp on your log records, then there's
potentially a much simpler method you could use.  Instead of logging
to a file, just use the Unix syslog instead: that will automatically
tag each line with a timestamp.  Something like:

Set($LogToSyslog    , 'debug');

(although this seems to be the default already).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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