Issue 24060: Clearify necessities for logging with timestamps (original) (raw)

Not to my eyes. It clearly says that if no formatting string is specified, the default is used, and that formatTime is used only if the message string contains asctime. Up to Vinay whether he thinks it is worth adding something like "which does not include a reference to the date/time" after the mention of using the default message if fmt is not supplied.

Perhaps I'll just change it to say

... the default value of '%(message)s' is used, which just includes the message in the logging call. To have additional items of information in the formatted output (such as a timestamp), see other placeholder variables ...

and then link to the "LogRecord Attributes" section.