On 02/03/2019 02:23, ProgAndy wrote:

Am 02.03.19 um 01:12 schrieb mpan:

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I just used the /var/log/pacman.log for the first time to give me the last date-time I did a system upgrade ('starting full system upgrade' in the log). There is no time-zone info in the time-stamp. It's also not UTC. Does anyone know if this is by design or a bug? `pacman` uses local time of your system. Indeed it seems like an ommision.

You may consider opening a feature request, so pacman.conf would allow either an option to include TZ in the logs (good idea) or setting custom time format (worse idea, as this would bind `pacman` codebase to the specific time formatting function).

Meanwhile you can explicitly set the timezone to UTC when calling pacman, that way the log will be consistent:

$ TZ=UTC sudo pacman ...

-- ProgAndy

For some reason, ' $ TZ=UTC sudo pacman' and '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman' both work, but '$ alias pacman="TZ=UTC pacman"' and then '$ sudo pacman' doesn't, even though (from what I know) it should be practically equal to '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman'. Not sure why, but it was worth a shot. Any other way to automate this TZ=UTC for pacman so you don't have to type it every time. Maybe a wrapper script aliased to "upacman" or something? -- Regards, Juha Kankare