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is syslogd logging locale independent?

Just wanna know whether syslogd logs messages in a locale-independent fashion.

I want to read the date/time format from log files.
Normally the date/time is of the form Jan 23 04:11:30.
can this date/time information found in log files be different for different locales??

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is logging locale independent?

Just wanna know whether syslogd logs messages in a locale-independent fashion.

I want to read the date/time format from log files.
Normally the date/time is of the form Jan 23 04:11:30.
can this date/time information found in log files be different for different locales?

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If your version of syslogd calls any of: localtime, mktime, asctime, ctime then yes.
All of these call tzset which invokes locale. By locale I assume you mean timezone changes.

Once started, syslogd will use the same timezone setting as long as it is up and running. The only thing that could cause a problem is how syslogd gets started.
If it doesn't see your system's equivalent of a TZ variable setting during process creation then each OS has it's own response to setting a default behavior for a missing "TZ". Example: minus TZ, HPUX uses EST5EDT4

What OS ?

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