Incorrect Date Time in Let's Encrypt Log

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Hi Guys,

Trying to get certbot automated, and came to realise that all of the is time stamping in UTC, but that hardly helps anyone if their local time is in a different format!

# Time stamp in log
2018-02-21 22:45:11,934:INFO:certbot.renewal:Cert not yet due for renewal

date
Thursday 22 February  09:46:13 AEDT 2018

date -u
Wednesday 21 February  22:46:26 UTC 2018

I’ve had a search and can’t find why this is the case, or if it is possible to change this.

*Fixed as per this merge https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/5607#pullrequestreview-98671199*

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Looks hardcoded to me - https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/ea3b78e3c9ff11da1d6919f2c5c36d53623512d3/certbot/log.py#L33

Does seem a bit silly (at least the TZ should be obvious), perhaps open an issue for it: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues

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Thanks @_az, glad I’m not the only one who thinks so.
I can follow through and add an issue. edit: Link to issue

I’ll leave the discussion open for other input.

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