Feature changed by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Feature #318921, revision 10 Title: YaST should log time like dmesg and journalctl Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: YaST should log the time in its log-file like 'dmesg' and 'journalctl -- output short-monotonic' so that times in the various logs can be compared and events can be synchronized. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Easier to analyse logs in bug reports. Discussion: #5: Joachim Werner (joachimwerner) (2015-05-06 14:05:21) I've created a separate request for SP2 and removed SP1. Let's do the change for openSUSE in any case. + #9: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) (2016-01-18 10:14:25) (reply to #6) + I actually don't think this is a good idea. Both examples `journalctl` + and `dmesg` log in kind of a DB and can export this to different + formats (or by using filters). Yast log is written directly to disk as + is. + Moreover, the current format makes sense for most of the Yasters more + than the new one, because we are interested in "when" the problem + actually happened. We would not be able to distinguish one Yast run + from another if there was, e.g. a restart in between. + Additionally, if you check different logs in your /var/log/, they use + different formatting, but most of these use something similar to Yast. + The only acceptable way (having timestamp from the boot) in the Yast + log is ADDING this to the log, but definitely not replacing the current + date and time with something else. + Customer benefit is missing - what I see is a possible benefit for Yast + developers when comparing different logs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318921