Syslog - Timestamp

• If present, most often a timestamp with just the date and day of month, hour, minutes and seconds

• Most often no time zone, year or better-than-second resolution

• Often wrong! ... due to out-of-sync internal device clocks (e.g. Clock always starts at Jan, 1st 1997 after power up)

  • If supported (by device), plan for NTP or similar mechanism to solve this.

• Improved in upcoming standards