From: Karl Date: 2010-03-04T07:05:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Logger datetime_format not respected My fault, copied the wrong version: require 'logger' log = Logger.new(STDOUT) log.datetime_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" log.formatter = proc { |severity, datetime, progname, msg| "[#{datetime}] #{msg}\n" } log.info "#{log.datetime_format}" outputs: [Wed Mar 03 15:01:05 -0700 2010] %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S