file name format of log archives

[Greg Vickers]

At 07:42 PM 15/04/2004, Paul L. Allen wrote:
>Greg Vickers writes:
>>We've got a couple of years of logs now and the default format of 
>>nagios-mm-dd-yyyy-00.log is pretty yukky :)
>
>That's one way of looking at it.  However, mm dd yyyy is the standard US
>date format.  Unless you're in the US military, where it's dd mm yyyy,
>as in the UK and Australia (and other places).

Australia here :)

>Partly because of these differences and ambiguities, ISO came up with
>yyyy mm dd.  It has the advantage that it can be sorted with a simple
>ASCII sort, which is not possible with the other two formats.  Which is
>why many programs that create datestamped filenames use ISO format for the
>datestamp.
>A change sounds good to me.

I'll see if I can link the file name to use a date stamp as specified in 
the date_format directive in nagios.cfg. I'll post a patch to the list.


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Greg Vickers
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Student Support and Systems,
Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
Queensland University of Technology,
Kelvin Grove Campus,
Brisbane,
Australia

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