Relative time (%r) rolls over very quickly in PatternLayout.

["Drapal, Myron E (Myron)" <dr...@avaya.com>]

It looks like there might be an issue with the RelativeTime
(milliseconds since application start) in the PatternLayout

(and maybe other places).  From my empirical tests, it seems to
roll-over in the logs at about 400000 msec (every

6.67 minutes).  See a sample below, the first field is %r, and the wall
clock time is in the message part of the log.

 

373656 [FINE] T5C5 <VServer.SYSTIME> (ThreadMain) 04/04/05 15:40:04
Mountain Daylight Time -7:00 (UTC = 21:40:04)

...

6281 [FINE] T663 <VServer.SYSTIME> (ThreadMain) 04/04/05 15:40:55
Mountain Daylight Time -7:00 (UTC = 21:40:55)

 

This doesn't make sense from looking at the code, as internally this is
an int_64 and shouldn't roll-over for a very long time.

Is this the intended behavior, or is this a bug?

 

Myron Drapal

drapal@avaya.com