>> I rather suggest to provide this as a configuration option so that >> builds that need this functionality can access it. > > OK. If it's an environment variable then this comes for free by > just setting that variable. How about the attached patch?
Basically, it looks good. However, I'm not convinced that I want to *always* suppress timestamps (and a setting in a user's environment is more or less permanent). Instead, I prefer good old command line options to control this behaviour. Comments? Werner