Universal storage format of date/time

Ludo · Post by **Ludo** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:19 am

I'm not all to sure yet about the format dates/times are stored in logs. There are some settings that allow you to play with the date/time format. If you modify settings at some point in time, old logs have problems with dates.

I believe that date/time should be stored in a "universal format" (independant of setting) and only the reporting should alter the visual aspect of it.

What do you think ?

Ludo

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:24 pm

By default HostMonitor uses system date&time format for reports and for logs. However you can set fixed format on Miscellaneous page in the Options dialog.
I think future version on Log Analyzer (it will be implemented as separated program) will be more flexible and allow you to analyze log files with different date formats.

Regards
Alex

Ludo · Post by **Ludo** » Fri May 09, 2003 6:36 am

I've been thinking this one over and come to my same conclusion again.

You could still store date/time in a universal format like e.g. MS-Excel does, or basically all "databases" do, and display it whatever way the user likes. You wouldn't have to worry anymore about different internal storage formats.

Storing it the way Windows dictates is definitely the wrong way as "anyone" will one day modify that.

Displaying it different and should be dictated by Windows.

Agreed - you can set it in HM ... but I always forget until HM tells me ...

Ludo

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KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri May 09, 2003 10:16 am

HostMonitor 4 + Log Analyzer 4 work with HTML and DBF logs correctly, regardless of system date format. The problem can be with Text logs only. Does anybody use Text log file?

Regards
Alex