[syslog-ng] syslog-ng logging with wrong year

[Jean-Sebastien Pilon]

> 
> And in addition, the timestamp of the message does not contain a year,
> there's a heuristic in syslog-ng to determine that.
>
> Here's the heuristic used:
>
>       tm.tm_year = nowtm.tm_year;
>       if (tm.tm_mon > nowtm.tm_mon)
>         tm.tm_year--;
>
> E.g. if the current month is smaller than the month in the timestamp,
> syslog-ng assumes that it comes from the previous year. Hmm... Maybe
> this heuristic would be better:
>
>       tm.tm_year = nowtm.tm_year;
>       if (tm.tm_mon == 11 && nowtm.tm_mon == 0)
>         tm.tm_year--;
>
> E.g. the year is decreased only if the receiver's time is in January,
> and the sender came in as December. This would not handle really
skewed
> timestamps, but your case would be covered.
>
> I'm reluctant to change this in 2.0 (the current algorithm has been in
> place for about a decade now), however I can commit a patch to 2.1.
What
> do others think?
>
> And a side-note: the best solution is to use a timestamp that actually
> includes the year information, like ISODATE.


How can I set ISODATE?
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