Re: time stamp format in log

Thanks for the reply.   The latter part of your post was difficult for me to comprehend.

However, I believe the issue is related to how fetchmail deals with the date/time as by 
altering the environment the daemon "runs in", the time stamp was altered.   

But, in line below, I will attempt to address your questions:

> What platform?

Opensuse 15.2 (Carlos mentioned 15.3, but that was a test VM I spun up to compare
the vendor supplied rendition of fetchmail "as installed" to my own setup.  That bought 
up some other questions I may address in the appropriate forum.

> $ uname -a

Linux AAAAAA  5.3.18-lp152.87-default #1 SMP Sun Aug 8 21:53:57 UTC 2021 (44d702a) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(AAAAAA replaces what I took to be the host name)

> 
> What are the defaults?
> 
> $ env - locale
> $ env - locale -k d_t_fmt
> $ locale
> $ locale -k d_t_fmt


locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

locale -k d_t_fmt
d_t_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y"


> The leading zero "03 PM" seems unusual at first sight,
> perhaps check if it is platform specific...
>      %0*   GNU libc extension.  Explicitly specify zero for padding.

As mentioned changing the fetchmail running environment as shown below
in a snippet of my systemd fetchmail unit file gives me a 24 hr format.   

There may be other ways to address the format without changing the "language"
but I am currently not aware of them.


[Service]
Type=simple
. . . 
Environment=LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
User=fetchmail
Group=fetchmail
. . . 

joe a.