Serilog - Possible to Change DateTime/Timestamp Format in RollingFile Sink

Question

The Current Output of RollingFile Sink for Date time is as follows

2015-04-06 18:40:54.400 +10:00 [Information] Hello World!

Is there anyway to remove the TimeZone Offset? +10:00. To Achieve the following output;

2015-04-06 18:40:54.400 [Information] Hello World!

In my case, the timezone offset is superfluous fluff which is just cluttering my Text Log.

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '15 at 21:32

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You can specify the outputTemplate parameter to the .RollingFile() configuration method:

.WriteTo.RollingFile(
    outputTemplate: "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff} [{Level}] {Message}{NewLine}{Exception}")

answered Apr 07 '15 at 21:32

Thanks Nick. Does the trick. I wasn't aware of the formatting options in the output template – Aaron Glover Apr 08 '15 at 10:49
Is it possible to do it with RollingFileSink as well? – Shetty Jun 02 '16 at 13:12
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@Shetty yes, the question and answer are both discussing the rolling file sink. – Nicholas Blumhardt Jun 03 '16 at 10:20
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RollingFile sink has been deprecated in favor of File. Property is the same: `outputTemplate` – G. Stoynev May 08 '20 at 03:08

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