OpenSSH logging with GMT on Connection close?

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Thu Aug 7 18:46:16 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 18:04 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> I've got a Fedora 8 machine here running sshd (OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL  
> 0.9.8b 04 May 2006) and when it closes a connection, it reports in / 
> var/log/secure a timestamp that's in GMT rather than in localtime:
> 
>    Aug  7 17:45:31 sshhost sshd[22039]: pam_unix(sshd:session):  
> session closed for user userone
>    Aug  7 21:49:04 sshhost sshd[22092]: Connection closed by  
> 192.168.1.123
>    Aug  7 17:54:57 sshhost sshd[22588]: Accepted publickey for  
> usertwo from 192.168.1.123 port 52016 ssh2
> 
> I'm curious if anybody else sees this.  I'd prefer my security logs  
> have consistent timestamps.

Yes.  I've seen it also.

> 
> Thanks,
> -Bill
> 
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