Feature request: Default date time stamp use ISO8601

[aboy021]

ISO 8601 is the only sane date format (obligatory xkcd link).
It would be great if default-output-fn used this format, or at least had an option to enable it.

[ptaoussanis]

Hi there,

It would be great if default-output-fn used this format, or at least had an option to enable it.

You can use :iso8601 as the format. Please see #135 if you'd like details on why this isn't the default.

[aboy021]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I'd love to be able to use :iso8601, but it looks like the change mentioned in #135 hasn't made it into the current master. None of the lovely patterns you created are in the current timbre.cljx and the only mention of iso8601 is in a comment.

It's a great feature, and if it does get merged into master, it would be great to add some mention of it to the README.md.

[ptaoussanis]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

No problem

I'd love to be able to use :iso8601, but it looks like the change mentioned in #135 hasn't made it into the current master.

Looks like #135 has been in master since v4.2.0 (Dec 27 2015). There's no docs on it, but it should work - is it not for you?

Note that the actual code change was in https://github.com/ptaoussanis/encore, not timbre.cljx.

It's a great feature, and if it does get merged into master, it would be great to add some mention of it to the README.md.

Sure, PR welcome :-)

[cjohansen]

Just spent some time trying to get timbre to print timestamps the same way basically all my other tools does it, and came by this. I would enthusiastically vote for 8601 as the default, it just takes too much mental effort to work with slightly deviating patterns like the one timbre currently uses. I'll take the :pattern :iso8601 for now, but I'd suggest a prominent mention of that feature in the readme.

[ptaoussanis]

Will update the default pattern with the next release 👍

[cjohansen]

Awesome, thanks!