Why does formatArgs prepend with date if useColors = false?

[ptrhdn]

Unsure why formatArgs prepends log message with a date stamp when useColors is false. Am I missing something?

/**
 * Adds ANSI color escape codes if enabled.
 *
 * @api public
 */

function formatArgs() {
  var args = arguments;
  var useColors = this.useColors;
  var name = this.namespace;

  if (useColors) {
    var c = this.color;

    args[0] = '  \u001b[3' + c + ';1m' + name + ' '
      + '\u001b[0m'
      + args[0] + '\u001b[3' + c + 'm'
      + ' +' + exports.humanize(this.diff) + '\u001b[0m';
  } else {
    args[0] = new Date().toUTCString()
      + ' ' + name + ' ' + args[0];
  }
  return args;
}

[gramakri]

We face this issue when running a node program via systemd. We end up with double dates in journactl logs (one from systemd itself and another from the above code).

[gramakri]

See also #161 and #157

[thebigredgeek]

Date configuration and output parsing via middleware should be supported in V3 and solve this.

Check it out here: #370

Closing for now