summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/logging.rst8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 5df0805..5070487 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -453,6 +453,14 @@ The useful mapping keys in a :class:`LogRecord` are given in the section on
record. Otherwise, the ISO8601 format is used. The resulting string is
returned.
+ This function uses a user-configurable function to convert the creation
+ time to a tuple. By default, :func:`time.localtime` is used; to change
+ this for a particular formatter instance, set the ``converter`` attribute
+ to a function with the same signature as :func:`time.localtime` or
+ :func:`time.gmtime`. To change it for all formatters, for example if you
+ want all logging times to be shown in GMT, set the ``converter``
+ attribute in the ``Formatter`` class.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Previously, the default ISO 8601 format was hard-coded as in this
example: ``2010-09-06 22:38:15,292`` where the part before the comma is