From: Vinay Sajip Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:16:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #8117: Updated NEWS entry and added to logging documentation. X-Git-Tag: v2.7b1~384 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecfa08fdf8de5fc72d9dd891b9a6c443bdee897d;p=python Issue #8117: Updated NEWS entry and added to logging documentation. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index d9824fdaf2..3d2eeef9ec 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1894,6 +1894,11 @@ timed intervals. The extensions are date-and-time based, using the strftime format ``%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`` or a leading portion thereof, depending on the rollover interval. + + When computing the next rollover time for the first time (when the handler + is created), the last modification time of an existing log file, or else + the current time, is used to compute when the next rotation will occur. + If the *utc* argument is true, times in UTC will be used; otherwise local time is used. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index c74eff18a2..0cbcf2dc09 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- -- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time. +- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time + for TimedRotatingFileHandler by using the modification time of an existing + log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist, + the current time is used as the basis for the computation. - Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The cElementTree module is updated too.