Arch Linux

instead of seeing something like that in /var/log/pacman.log (or whatever is the log file of pacman )

[08/23/05 17:52] upgraded pacman (2.9.6-2 -> 2.9.6-2)

it would be nice to see something like that
[2005-08-23 17:52] synchronizing package lists

Note the date change

Here is the patch
--- pacman-2.9.6/src/pacman.c 2005-04-25 20:19:24.000000000 +0200
+++ pacman-2.9.6/src/pacman_new.c 2005-08-23 17:40:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -3857,8 +3857,8 @@
t = time(NULL);
tm = localtime(&t);

- fprintf(logfd, "[%02d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d] %s\n", tm->tm_mon+1, tm->tm_mday,
- tm->tm_year-100, tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min, msg);
+ fprintf(logfd, "[%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d] %s\n", tm->tm_year+1900,
+ tm->tm_mon+1, tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min, msg);
}
}