Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. When I look at human readable logfiles I see a trend towards using epoch seconds for exactly these reasons. It's

Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. When I look at human readable logfiles I see a trend towards using epoch seconds for exactly these reasons. It's so easy to convert, it outweighs the anti-usability aspects inherent in formatted strings. I've converted all my own human readable file formats to epoch times for exactly these reasons and my customers seem to strongly prefer it.