Event-Timestamp



Hi,

Three questions:
* In the default SQL accounting schemas %S is used over the Event-Timestamp attribute included in the accounting packet. I guess this is because of the potential drift between NAS, and it makes correlation easier. Is this the real reason or is it just an omission ?

* RFC 2869 Specifies the format of Event-Timestamp to be number of seconds since the Unix Epoch. Yet FR prints it as Event-Timestamp = "Apr 24 2008 20:06:52 BST". Is this FR's interpretation of the integer timestamp as a date string or is the NAS sending the timestamp as a string?

* In accounting detail packets, a timestamp attribute is included. But I can't figure out how to access it as an attribute when the detail entries are read back into the server. Any ideas how to ? It would be better to use this in accounting queries than %S and there will be a delay between the packet arriving and the packet being inserted into the SQL db.

Thanks,
Arran

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