[Swift-devel] Formatting kickstart records

[Brian Tierney]

Michael Wilde wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> The cheat-sheet page at 
> http://www.cedps.net/wiki/index.php/LoggingBestPracticesCheatSheet
> was very helpful.
> 
> We'll need to get a place in the eventname hierarchy - like 
> org.globus.swift.* - I assume that's what we should use.

Yes, that sounds right.

> 
> Our timestamps are close in format but use local time with a TZ suffix. 
> We could change to GMT (I assume thats what Z means)
> 

correct, its a standard ISO format where Z = GMT

> What's the standard and use for GUIDs? I assume that can be used to tie 
> together events across components, but I'm not sure how to make the 
> correlation. Swift generates its own GUIDs internally for various 
> objects in the lifetime of a workflow (eg jobs).


There is no standard for this. Your own GUID should be fine.