[Sugar-devel] Best time format for logging?

[Walter Bender]

We've discussed (in AU) adding something similar to Sugar activities:
a metadata field with the elapsed time that the activity is visible.
We should coordinate all of these changes.

regards.

-walter

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the seconds format is more useful for the purposes of
> subsequent analysis.
>
> -walter
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi, this is a general question but related with Sugar.
>>
>> I have made changes in olpc-utils to log the session duration and kind
>> (Sugar or GNOME).  This will be used for statistics.
>> https://github.com/manuq/olpc-utils/compare/boot-stats?expand=1
>>
>> My log format is now:
>>
>>     START_SUGAR 27/Feb/2014:17:33:17
>>     END         27/Feb/2014:17:59:47
>>     START_SUGAR 27/Feb/2014:18:00:24
>>     END         27/Feb/2014:18:44:54
>>     START_GNOME 27/Feb/2014:18:45:30
>>     END         27/Feb/2014:18:50:26
>>     START SUGAR 27/Feb/2014:18:51:03
>>     END         27/Feb/2014:18:57:58
>>
>> But I see that in many places Linux logs times as date +%s, which
>> outputs seconds like: 1393595186 .
>>
>> What is best?
>>
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