Re: how to show time zone with numerical offset in CSV log?

On 09/22/2015 08:16 AM, Michael Zoet wrote:
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> ----- Nachricht von Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> ---------
> Datum: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:46:24 -0700
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>>> Zone names: Time zone names ('z') cannot be parsed.
>>
>> Some more digging found that DateTimeFormat can deal with Z which is
>> either the offset or the timezone id, in particular as ZZZ.
>>
>> http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html
>>
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>> Zone: 'Z' outputs offset without a colon, 'ZZ' outputs the offset with
>> a colon, 'ZZZ' or more outputs the zone id.
>
> That's why I am asking "how to get the numerical offset printed in the
> log files". Logstash can parse the numerical value. Otherwise I will
> always have a parsing error in Logstash. We could live with this but if
> it is possible I'd like to change this on the Postgres level. But I
> never thought that this is much more complicated than expected.

From the above link:

Z time zone offset/id zone -0800; -08:00;
America/Los_Angeles

So DateTimeFormat does understand names, though not necessarily
abbreviations which is what z is for. The Logstash match is supposed to
understand what DateTimeFormat parses.

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>>
>> The timezone names in Postgres are available from:
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>> select * from pg_timezone_names ;
>>
>> So in addition to Tom's suggestion, you might try setting the
>> log_timezone to a name. Examples: Europe/Brussels for CEST, Etc/UTC
>> for UTC
>>
>
> As far as I understand the log_timezone configuration option, it will
> always print me the name if I use a name for the time zone. And that is
> the no go for Logstash. So I really need a numerical value to parse it
> with Logstash.
>
> Michael
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>
>

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