Subject: Does not follow timezone

From: martin f krafft <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 05:44:58 +1300

Package: rsyslog
Version: 8.1908.0-1
Severity: normal

If a system's timezone is updated, rsyslog doesn't find out about 
it. Arguably, this only applies to travelling laptops, but rsyslog 
is the default Debian logger on this, which is why I think this is 
worthwhile to think about.

Many other tools automatically adjust on timezone changes, whether 
that is through inotify on /etc/localtime, not caching the timezone 
in the first place, or some other mechanism provided by the OS.

Please consider something similar for rsyslog.

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System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rsyslog depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.57
ii  libc6                2.29-1
ii  libestr0             0.1.10-2.1+b1
ii  libfastjson4         0.99.8-2
ii  liblognorm5          2.0.5-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0          242-5
ii  libuuid1             2.34-0.1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1

Versions of packages rsyslog recommends:
ii  logrotate  3.15.1-1

Versions of packages rsyslog suggests:
pn  rsyslog-doc                       <none>
pn  rsyslog-gssapi                    <none>
pn  rsyslog-mongodb                   <none>
pn  rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql     <none>
pn  rsyslog-openssl | rsyslog-gnutls  <none>
pn  rsyslog-relp                      <none>

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Configuration Files:
/etc/rsyslog.conf changed [not included]

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debconf-show failed

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