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What year is it - system logs

jdprovine — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:54:27 GMT

Anyone ever noticed the system logs a month and day but no year?

Re: What year is it - system logs

Mick_Ball — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:40:15 GMT

Oh bugger... so how will i know if it's 2018 or 1972....

Re: What year is it - system logs

JoeAndreini — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:05:24 GMT

Some people have had firewalls more tha none year. Particuarly in the case of system logs, where there are not so many entries, the year is important. I have devices that have logs reaching back to their installation date, and it is not obvious what year a log is from.

Re: What year is it - system logs

gwesson — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:24:09 GMT

I never actually paid any attention to that, but yeah I see it now.

The full date + time are in the log itself, so you can either click on the magnifying glass to see it or you can click on the date/time link in that column to add the full timestamp (receive_time leq '2018/07/25 08:54:17).

I think it's probably a purposeful decision. The vast majority of logs on the system won't stay present for more than a year, and even if they did you wouldn't need the year visually since intermediate logs between years would indicate how many years have passed.

Re: What year is it - system logs

jdprovine — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:09:32 GMT

@Mick_Ball

your a card sooooooo. It actually does make it a bit harder to judge when things happened

Re: What year is it - system logs

jdprovine — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:11:09 GMT

@gwesson

My system logs appear to cover a couple years

Re: What year is it - system logs

Mick_Ball — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:28:37 GMT

Yes i suppose if you searched for a certain event or denial then your log could show this month last year as one single entry and unless you check as per @gwesson you would be none the wiser...

well observed @jdprovine.

Re: What year is it - system logs

RobinClayton — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:13:52 GMT

Do you have "Start Time" column enabled?

Re: What year is it - system logs

jdprovine — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:36:48 GMT

@RobinClayton

I chose all the columns that were available to add in my version 7.1.16