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Re: Date formats for structured output
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:08:22 -0700
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:05:18AM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:00:00PM -0700, commit-mailer () insecure org wrote:Author: dmiller Date: Wed Aug 15 20:00:00 2012 New Revision: 29601 Log: Add @xmloutput nsedoc to ssh-hostkey, smb-os-discovery Modified: nmap/scripts/smb-os-discovery.nse ============================================================================== --- nmap/scripts/smb-os-discovery.nse (original) +++ nmap/scripts/smb-os-discovery.nse Wed Aug 15 20:00:00 2012 @@ -56,7 +56,18 @@ -- | NetBIOS computer name: SQL2008 -- | NetBIOS domain name: LAB -- |_ System time: 2011-04-20 13:34:06 UTC-5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +-- +--@xmloutput +-- <script id="smb-os-discovery" output="..."> +-- <elem key="OS">Windows Server (R) 2008 Standard 6001 Service Pack 1 (Windows Server (R) 2008 Standard 6.0)</elem> +-- <elem key="Computer name">Sql2008</elem> +-- <elem key="Domain name">lab.test.local</elem> +-- <elem key="Forest name">test.local</elem> +-- <elem key="FQDN">Sql2008.lab.test.local</elem> +-- <elem key="NetBIOS computer name">SQL2008</elem> +-- <elem key="NetBIOS domain name">LAB</elem> +-- <elem key="System time">2011-04-20 13:34:06 UTC-5</elem> +-- </script>As for this part of the output,+-- <elem key="System time">2011-04-20 13:34:06 UTC-5</elem>I think there will be a lot of value if we use a common date format in all scripts that use structured output. I have been using os.date("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") which looks like 2012-08-16T05:03:30Z This is ISO 8601. However, this supposes UTC, so we would have to represent the "UTC-5" in the date above separately. Perhaps we should settle on a date format that also includes a time zone?
Here is something: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html#zone David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Date formats for structured output David Fifield (Aug 16)
- Re: Date formats for structured output David Fifield (Aug 16)
- Re: Date formats for structured output Daniel Miller (Aug 16)
- Re: Date formats for structured output David Fifield (Aug 17)
- Re: Date formats for structured output David Fifield (Sep 08)
- Re: Date formats for structured output Daniel Miller (Aug 16)
- Re: Date formats for structured output David Fifield (Aug 16)