I have created a patch based on syslog-ng-1.5.20 That adds two new macros. TZOFFSET The time-zone as hour offset from GMT. e.g. '-0700' TZ The time zone or name or abbreviation. e.g. 'PDT' usable like all other macros. $TZ and $TZOFFSET the affected source files are doc/sgml/syslog-ng.sgml documentation update src/affile.c The code change you also need to /bin/touch src/affile.c.x to get it to build correctly after you have applied the patch. and you need to explicitly rebuild the documentation if you want the documentation updates. I have the need for this as I have to coordinate syslog files with other application log files that are in multiple data centers. And since a standard syslog entry does not contain the timezone, I need the log file name to contain the GMT offset so I can correlate the data in a useful manner with the logs in other timezones, and daylight saving times. Hope this patch meets the code standards for this project and that others may find it useful. -- -R*S San Francisco, CA Robin * Slomkowski pretender@rslomkow.org