Timestamp format in openvpn-status.log

[apatrick13]

In my version of openvpn (xxx), the status log format changes in the timestamp field.
Wed Jul 20 16:43:45 2022 -> 2022-07-20 16:43:45
This raises exceptions :
openvpn_status.parser.ParsingError: expected valid format: time data '2022-07-20 16:43:45' does not match format '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y'

To cope with this change, make the following changes in the file util.py
rename DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN to DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN_F1 (= u'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y')
Add DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN_F2 = u'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

Change parse_time function :
def parse_time(time):
"""Parses date and time from input string in OpenVPN logging format."""
if isinstance(time, datetime.datetime):
return time
try:
res=datetime.datetime.strptime(time, DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN_F1)
return res
except Exception as e:
pass
return datetime.datetime.strptime(time, DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN_F2)

May be more simple solutions, but this one works 👍

Regards

[pandafy]

It will be beneficial to allow configuring the DATETIME_FORMAT_OPENVPN setting defined in `openvpn_status.utils'. I think we can make it look for a environment variable.

[mikysal78]

Hi, idem... i have this:
OpenVPN parsing error: expected valid format: time data '2023-04-05 21:38:47' does not match format '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y'""
I have OpenVPN 2.5.1 on server (debian 11) and OpenVPN 2.5.7 on client (openwrt 22.03.3).
Howto change this format?
thanks.

[burbilog]

I've got the same problem after updating debian 11 to 12. Any chances to have this fixed?.... it seems the issue is year old.