The ISO-8601 should be welcomed by anyone who tries to parse dmesg time stamp, and compare them across servers. Time format tries to imitate coreutils 'date --iso-8601=ns' output, but instead of having nanoseconds the dmesg is using microseconds. Reference: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html Addresses: http://xkcd.com/1179/ Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> --- sys-utils/dmesg.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.c b/sys-utils/dmesg.c index 6a8c64a..adfd6a5 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.c +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.c @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ enum { TIMEFTM_CTIME = (1 << 1), TIMEFTM_DELTA = (1 << 2), TIMEFTM_RELTIME = (1 << 3), + TIMEFTM_ISO8601 = (1 << 4), }; struct dmesg_control { @@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out) fputs(_(" -w, --follow wait for new messages\n"), out); fputs(_(" -x, --decode decode facility and level to readable string\n"), out); fputs(_(" --time-format <format> show time stamp using format:\n" - " [notime|ctime|delta|reltime]\n"), out); + " [notime|ctime|delta|reltime|iso]\n"), out); fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out); fputs(USAGE_HELP, out); fputs(USAGE_VERSION, out); @@ -790,6 +791,23 @@ static char *short_ctime(struct tm *tm, char *buf, size_t bufsiz) return buf; } +static char *iso_8601_time(struct dmesg_control *ctl, struct dmesg_record *rec, char *buf, + size_t bufsiz) +{ + struct tm tm; + size_t len; + record_localtime(ctl, rec, &tm); + if (strftime(buf, bufsiz, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", &tm) == 0) { + *buf = '\0'; + return buf; + } + len = strlen(buf); + snprintf(buf + len, bufsiz - len, ",%06d", (int) rec->tv.tv_usec); + len = strlen(buf); + strftime(buf + len, bufsiz - len, "%z", &tm); + return buf; +} + static double record_count_delta(struct dmesg_control *ctl, struct dmesg_record *rec) { @@ -888,6 +906,17 @@ static void print_record(struct dmesg_control *ctl, } /* + * [iso-8601] + */ + else if (ctl->time_fmt & TIMEFTM_ISO8601) { + if (ctl->color) + color_enable(DMESG_COLOR_TIME); + printf("%s ", iso_8601_time(ctl, rec, buf, sizeof(buf))); + if (ctl->color) + color_disable(); + } + + /* * [reltime] */ else if (ctl->time_fmt & TIMEFTM_RELTIME) { @@ -926,7 +955,8 @@ static void print_record(struct dmesg_control *ctl, */ if (ctl->method == DMESG_METHOD_KMSG && !(ctl->time_fmt & TIMEFTM_NONE) - && !(ctl->time_fmt & (TIMEFTM_CTIME | TIMEFTM_DELTA | TIMEFTM_RELTIME))) + && !(ctl->time_fmt & (TIMEFTM_CTIME | TIMEFTM_DELTA | + TIMEFTM_RELTIME | TIMEFTM_ISO8601))) { if (ctl->color) color_enable(DMESG_COLOR_TIME); @@ -1154,6 +1184,8 @@ static int which_time_format(const char *optarg) return TIMEFTM_DELTA; if (!strcmp(optarg, "reltime")) return TIMEFTM_RELTIME; + if (!strcmp(optarg, "iso")) + return TIMEFTM_ISO8601; errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unknown time format: %s"), optarg); } @@ -1341,7 +1373,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) if ((ctl.time_fmt & TIMEFTM_RELTIME) && (ctl.time_fmt & TIMEFTM_CTIME)) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("--reltime can't be used together with --ctime ")); - if (ctl.time_fmt & (TIMEFTM_RELTIME | TIMEFTM_CTIME)) { + if (ctl.time_fmt & (TIMEFTM_RELTIME | TIMEFTM_CTIME | TIMEFTM_ISO8601)) { ctl.boot_time = get_boot_time(); if (!ctl.boot_time) ctl.time_fmt &= TIMEFTM_RELTIME | TIMEFTM_CTIME; -- 1.8.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html