Local time zone in date formatting

[troplin]

Currently, the time stamp is always UTC but I'd prefer local time.

[sfackler]

Allowing this to be configured seems like a good idea. I'm not totally sure what a good syntax would be though. Maybe something like {d(local)(%h:%m etc)}?

[troplin]

Or {dz} for UTC and {dl} for local?
chrono treats them a different types too.

[jwilm]

Would it make sense to achieve this with a config option for appenders rather than expanding the format grammar?

[sfackler]

{dz} and {dl} could work, but we'd presumably want to extend this to explicit timezones in the future when chrono understands America/Pacific etc.

I think the format pattern is the right place to specify this, since it's a property local to that part of an appender.

[troplin]

Hm, I can't imagine a use case for explicit time zones in logging.
But that may just be my lack of imagination. 😃