Talk:Common Log Format

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Useful URLs to add[edit]

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/468e7ca4-fac8-4a5e-ab4f-5a2a2bbd7f9a1033.msp

—Hobart 22:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this useful? It's about "Windows Server 2003", there's nothing about "log formats" on this site. -- 2A03:3680:0:3:0:0:0:67 (talk) 23:24, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Date format[edit]

Background: I went looking for the official format for the date field (specifically, I was trying to determine if a single-digit day would be a single character or preceded by a 0 or space. I realized that the Common Logfile Format does not actually define this detail. My question started because the nginx documentation simply states that the $time_local variable is defined as "local time in the Common Log Format (1.3.12, 1.2.7)"^[1]. After the Common Logfile Format, my first stop was the closest "relative" standard, i.e. the Extended Log File Format; however, the Date directive uses no colon between the date and time, and the entries use a fully numeric format^[2]. My next stops were the NCSA and Apache documentation, and they both document the syntax as it is stated in the article: %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z^[3]^[4].

Issue to resolve: Given the ambiguity of the Common Logfile Format and it's closest relative and only application documentation to support a standard format, is this statement in the article actually valid without a qualification? Is there an un-cited reference that supports it? Does this issue deserve a discussion in the article?

[10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] is the date, time, and time zone that the request was received, by default in strftime format %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z.

— TekWiz (talk) 13:34, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

[1] ttp://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#var_time_local

[2] ttps://www.w3.org/TR/WD-logfile.html

[3] ttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITWSA/ITWSA_info45/en_US/HTML/guide/c-logs.html#common

[4] ttps://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/logs.html#common

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