Re: syslog

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 01/03/04

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:46:41 -0600
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>

    In the last episode (Jan 04), Eugene Grosbein said:
    > ache@freebsd.org wrote 8 years ago in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c:
    >
    > p += sprintf(p, "%.15s ", ctime(&now) + 4);
    >
    > What is '+ 4' for?

    ctime returns a date in the format:

    Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0

    The +4 skips the day name. 

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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