Hi Folks: I need to change date format of a log - the application I am using wants HH:MM:SS. Twisted seems to give back HH:MM. Based on the example in Abe Fettig's book and looking at Twisted.Python.Log (and I am not sure where to define the timeFormat string), I do the following. class MyLog(log.FileLogObserver): def formatTime(self, when): if self.timeFormat is not None: return time.strftime(self.timeFormat, time.localtime(when)) tzOffset = -self.getTimezoneOffset() when = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(when + tzOffset) tzHour = int(tzOffset / 60 / 60) tzMin = int(tzOffset / 60 % 60) # added seconds return '%d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %+03d%02d' % ( when.year, when.month, when.day, when.hour, when.minute, when.second, tzHour, tzMin) def emit(self, logEntryDict): log.FileLogObserver.emit(self, logEntryDict) When I run my code in twistd, I get the following error Log observer failed, removing from observer list. Any help would be appreciated in telling me what is going wrong, or pointing out the right way of altering the log. Cheers, Andrew ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ