X server logs need human-friendly timestamps
Submitted by Matej Cepl
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
So, there are now logs in Xorg.0.log (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d2322b6309bf15a45002b42e7e6ba3d6b5bfa932), so bug 25668 and bug 26180 as they stand could be closed IMHO, but miliseconds / 1000 are not exactly easy to read for humans.
-- some more comments from the downstream bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582340):
I agree. I'm trying to understand a bug causing Xorg to crash and it would be
more helpful for timestamps to be easier to read. It looks like seconds since
last boot. Even if they stick with seconds as the time stamp, calendar time
(seconds since the epoch) would be more useful since it can be easily converted
to an absolute time without having to figure out when your computer was last
switched on.
It looks like the X server has started to timestamp its log entries, but
unfortunately this is just in the format of a decimal number. Making this
human readable would help enormously in debugging problems where log entries
need to be temporally correlated with a stimulus.