In the wake of changes to hide away tracebacks from players, made the error report include the server log time stamp so as to make it easier to reconcile with the real traceback information.

evennia/utils/logger.py

@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ log_typemsg(). This is for historical, back-compatible reasons.
 
 """
 
+from __future__ import division
+
 import os
+import time
+from datetime import datetime
 from traceback import format_exc
 from twisted.python import log
 from twisted.internet.threads import deferToThread
@@ -22,6 +26,36 @@ from twisted.internet.threads import deferToThread
 _LOGDIR = None
 _TIMEZONE = None
 
+def timeformat(when=None):
+    """
+    This helper function will format the current time in the same
+    way as twisted's logger does, including time zone info.
+
+    Args:
+        when (int, optional): This is a time in POSIX seconds on the form
+            given by time.time(). If not given, this function will
+            use the current time.
+
+    Returns:
+        timestring (str): A formatted string of the given time.
+    """
+    when = when if when else time.time()
+
+    # time zone offset: UTC - the actual offset
+    tz_offset = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(when) - datetime.fromtimestamp(when)
+    tz_offset = tz_offset.days * 86400 + tz_offset.seconds
+    # correct given time to utc
+    when = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(when - tz_offset)
+    tz_hour = abs(int(tz_offset // 3600))
+    tz_mins = abs(int(tz_offset // 60 % 60))
+    tz_sign = "-" if tz_offset >= 0 else "+"
+
+    return '%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d%s%02d%02d' % (
+        when.year, when.month, when.day,
+        when.hour, when.minute, when.second,
+        tz_sign, tz_hour, tz_mins)
+
+
 def log_trace(errmsg=None):
     """
     Log a traceback to the log. This should be called from within an