Robocopy Timestamp

[blackvan253]

Hi, I hope I'm in the correct forum ...

Here's my issue: when running a Robocopy backup, the timestamps in the log file output are all GMT-0 times, whereas my time zone is GMT+11.

However, the Date/time for the backed up files in Explorer is correctly reported. The Date/time in CMD is also correctly reported.

In Windows settings (WIN 10) my time zone is correctly set at UTC+10 with auto adjust for DST (currently true).

I can't think of one but is there another setting somewhere that I should be checking to get the log file to show my correct time zone?

Thanks!

 

[strongm]

Nope, Robocopy doesn't have any way to switch those entries from UTC to local time. The unwritten idea is that the log files were really meant to be parsed by a log file parser (I wrote one many years ago to support a disaster recovery program).
But a minimal idea would be to replace all the UTC time codes in the file with local times. And one way of doing that is to use Powershell , e.g

$logPath = "d:\downloads\Logs\robocopy.log"
$outputPath = "d:\downloads\Logs\robocopy_localtime.log"

# Read the log file
$logLines = Get-Content $logPath

# Process each line
$convertedLines = $logLines | ForEach-Object {
    if ($_ -match '(\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})') {
        # Convert the found UTC timestamp to local time
        $utcTime = [datetime]::ParseExact($matches[1], "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss", $null, [System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles]::AssumeUniversal)
        $localTime = $utcTime.ToLocalTime().ToString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss")
        
        # Replace UTC timestamp with local time in the line
        $_ -replace $matches[1], $localTime
    } else {
        $_  # If no timestamp found, keep the line as is
    }
}

# Write the converted log to a new file
$convertedLines | Set-Content $outputPath

Write-Output "Conversion complete. Local time log saved to: $outputPath"