NAME

Log::Agent::Stamping - time-stamping routines

SYNOPSIS 

 Not intended to be used directly

DESCRIPTION

This package contains routines to generate the leading time-stamping on logged messages. Formats are identified by a name, and the stamping_fn() function converts that name into a CODE ref, defaulting to the "own" format when given an unknown name.

Here are the known formats: 

 date      "[Fri Oct 22 16:23:10 1999]"
 none
 own       "99/10/22 16:23:10"
 syslog    "Oct 22 16:23:10"

Channels or Drivers which take a -stampfmt switch expect either a string giving the format name (e.g. "date"), or a CODE ref. That referenced routine will be called every time we need to compute a time stamp. It should not expect any parameter, and should return a stamping string.

AUTHOR

Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>

SEE ALSO

Log::Agent(3), Log::Agent::Channel(3), Log::Agent::Driver(3).