wrong date format in syslog

[SEKINE Tatsuo]

Hi all.

Accroding to RFC 3164(ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3164.txt),
the timestamp should be in the format of "Mmm dd hh:mm:ss" (without
the quote marks). Where "Mmm" is the English language abbreviation for
the month of the year.

But glibc-2.3.1 implements it as "%h %e %T" (in strftime() format).
In non-English locale, syslog daemon incorrectly parse those message
generated by glibc.

Quick hacked patch is attached below.
I'm sorry, but I don't know how to write correct code in glibc.
Thus the patch is not tested, but the way of thinking may be correct.

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--- glibc-2.3.1/misc/syslog.c.orig      Tue Aug 27 06:15:54 2002
+++ glibc-2.3.1/misc/syslog.c   Tue Feb 25 13:21:38 2003
@@ -165,16 +165,19 @@
          }
        else
          {
+           char *ctimep;
            prioff = fprintf (f, "<%d>", pri);
            (void) time (&now);
+           ctimep = ctime (&now);
+           ctimep += 4;                /* skip the days of the week */
 #ifdef USE_IN_LIBIO
-           f->_IO_write_ptr += strftime (f->_IO_write_ptr,
-                                         f->_IO_write_end - f->_IO_write_ptr,
-                                         "%h %e %T ",
-                                         __localtime_r (&now, &now_tm));
+           f->_IO_write_ptr += __snprintf (f->_IO_write_ptr,
+                                           f->_IO_write_end - f->_IO_write_ptr,
+                                           "%s ",
+                                           ctimep);
 #else
-           f->__bufp += strftime (f->__bufp, f->__put_limit - f->__bufp,
-                                  "%h %e %T ", __localtime_r (&now, &now_tm));
+           f->__bufp += __snprintf (f->__bufp, f->__put_limit - f->__bufp,
+                                    "%s ", ctimep);
 #endif
            msgoff = ftell (f);
            if (LogTag == NULL)
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