DatePattern

Rollover schedule

Example

'.'yyyy-MM

Rollover at the beginning of each month

At midnight of May 31st, 2002 /foo/bar.log will be copied to /foo/bar.log.2002-05 . Logging for the month of June will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is also rolled over the next month.

'.'yyyy-ww

Rollover at the first day of each week. The first day of the week depends on the locale.

Assuming the first day of the week is Sunday, on Saturday midnight, June 9th 2002, the file /foo/bar.logwill be copied to /foo/bar.log.2002-23 . Logging for the 24th week of 2002 will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is rolled over the next week.

'.'yyyy-MM-dd

Rollover at midnight each day.

At midnight, on March 8th, 2002, /foo/bar.log will be copied to /foo/bar.log.2002-03-08 . Logging for the 9th day of March will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is rolled over the next day.

'.'yyyy-MM-dd-a

Rollover at midnight and midday of each day.

At noon, on March 9th, 2002, /foo/bar.log will be copied to /foo/bar.log.2002-03-09-AM . Logging for the afternoon of the 9th will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is rolled over at midnight.

'.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH

Rollover at the top of every hour.

At approximately 11:00.000 o'clock on March 9th, 2002,/foo/bar.log will be copied to /foo/bar.log.2002-03-09-10 . Logging for the 11th hour of the 9th of March will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is rolled over at the beginning of the next hour.

'.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm

Rollover at the beginning of every minute.

At approximately 11:23,000, on March 9th, 2001, /foo/bar.log will be copied to /foo/bar.log.2001-03-09-10-22 . Logging for the minute of 11:23 (9th of March) will be output to /foo/bar.log until it is rolled over the next minute