# Log date, time and timezone integrally

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304 "2016-07-21T20:03:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Kozlov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sergey\_Kozlov](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sergey_Kozlov)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304/1 "2016-07-21T20:03:43Z")

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Hello! I want Wowza server to log timestamp like “2016-07-21T19:02:15.222+0600”. Is it possible to configure this via log4j.properties?

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**Author:** ![J\_van\_Marion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@J\_van\_Marion](https://community.wowza.com/u/J_van_Marion)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304/2 "2016-07-28T01:42:20Z")

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I think you have to play with the settings in the /conf/log4j.properties file.

i dont know if the below is working (couldn;t find up-to-date info on this) Im testing it with the access log. Hopefully can tell you more tomorrow.

i added this line at the bottom part of the access\_log settings;

```auto
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX}{GMT}

```

```auto
# Access appender
log4j.appender.serverAccess=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.serverAccess.encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.serverAccess.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.serverAccess.File=${com.wowza.wms.ConfigHome}/logs/wowzastreamingengine_access.log
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
#test to see if time_date is different for access log file
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX}{GMT}

```

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**Author:** ![J\_van\_Marion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@J\_van\_Marion](https://community.wowza.com/u/J_van_Marion)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304/3 "2016-07-28T10:59:51Z")

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Ok,

and how do you it then?

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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Kozlov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sergey\_Kozlov](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sergey_Kozlov)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/log-date-time-and-timezone-integrally/47304/4 "2016-07-28T10:35:07Z")

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Response from Wowza support:

> It is not possible to change server log timestamp to match that format. Our custom logging layout won’t allow for that configuration.

So we use our own pattern layout.