[tor-bugs] #15607 [Tor]: Tor log dates inprecise

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#15607: Tor log dates inprecise
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 Reporter:  atagar  |          Owner:
     Type:  defect  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor     |        Version:
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 Hi Nick. Tor's log file uses the local timezone and lacks the year in its
 log file entries...

 {{{
 Apr 06 11:03:39.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.7.0-alpha-dev (git-4247ce99e5d9b7b2)
 opening new log file.
 Apr 06 11:03:39.832 [notice] Tor v0.2.7.0-alpha-dev (git-4247ce99e5d9b7b2)
 running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.16-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1 and Zlib
 1.2.3.4.
 Apr 06 11:03:39.832 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn
 how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
 }}}

 This is fine, but has meant some hacks for arm which reads the log file to
 prepopulate that information. For instance, arm pretends the year is
 always 2012 to ensure log files made on leap years are readable (otherwise
 February 29th isn't a thing, see #5265).

 Feel free to close this as 'no plan to fix' if you'd like. Just thought
 I'd run this by you to see if iso8601 timestamps or something more
 complete would be preferable.

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