Added custom log formatter util.LogFormatter that makes the human-readable time stamp in UTC

ipalib/constants.py

@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ LOG_FORMAT_STDERR_DEBUG = ' '.join([
 
 
 # Tab-delimited log format for file (easy to opened in a spreadsheet):
-LOG_FORMAT_FILE = ' '.join([
-    '%(created)f',
+LOG_FORMAT_FILE = '\t'.join([
+    '%(asctime)s',
     '%(levelname)s',
     '%(message)r', # Using %r for repr() so message is a single line
     '%(lineno)d',

ipalib/plugable.py

@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ class API(DictProxy):
             stderr.setLevel(logging.INFO)
         else:
             stderr.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
-        stderr.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(format))
+        stderr.setFormatter(util.LogFormatter(format))
         log.addHandler(stderr)
 
         # Add file handler:
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ class API(DictProxy):
                 log.warn('Could not create log_dir %r', log_dir)
                 return
         handler = logging.FileHandler(self.env.log)
-        handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(self.env.log_format_file))
+        handler.setFormatter(util.LogFormatter(self.env.log_format_file))
         if self.env.debug:
             handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
         else:

ipalib/util.py

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import os
 from os import path
 import imp
 import optparse
+import logging
+import time
 import krbV
 
 
@@ -122,3 +124,10 @@ def add_global_options(parser=None):
         help='Produce more verbose output',
     )
     return parser
+
+
+class LogFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    """
+    Log formatter that uses UTC for all timestamps.
+    """
+    converter = time.gmtime