From dc70e36cc5ff101ed198283997572535866f7003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Cardenas <cevaris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 20:17:15 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] added timeNow override

---
 .gitignore     |  4 ++++
 README.md      |  3 +++
 logger.go      |  5 +++++
 logger_test.go | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bcf1408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+*.test
+.idea
+*.iml
+*~
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a7326b..ef1239a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ func main() {
 
 	// Set the backends to be used.
 	logging.SetBackend(backend1Leveled, backend2Formatter)
+	
+	// Set log time to UTC, default is Local
+	logging.SetTimeNow(time.Now().UTC)
 
 	log.Debugf("debug %s", Password("secret"))
 	log.Info("info")
diff --git a/logger.go b/logger.go
index 535ed9b..b19fed5 100644
--- a/logger.go
+++ b/logger.go
@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ func MustGetLogger(module string) *Logger {
 	return logger
 }
 
+// SetTimeNow configures the time.Time value generated for log time values
+func SetTimeNow(now func () time.Time) {
+	timeNow = now
+}
+
 // Reset restores the internal state of the logging library.
 func Reset() {
 	// TODO make a global Init() method to be less magic? or make it such that
diff --git a/logger_test.go b/logger_test.go
index b9f7fe7..ba64518 100644
--- a/logger_test.go
+++ b/logger_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 
 package logging
 
-import "testing"
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
 
 type Password string
 
@@ -60,3 +63,20 @@ func TestPrivateBackend(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("logged to defaultBackend:", MemoryRecordN(privateBackend, 0))
 	}
 }
+
+func TestLogger_SetTimerNow(t *testing.T) {
+	_ = InitForTesting(DEBUG)
+	_ = MustGetLogger("test")
+
+	if now := timeNow(); now != time.Unix(0, 0).UTC() {
+		t.Error("test timeNow incorrect", now)
+	}
+
+	SetTimeNow(func() time.Time {
+		return time.Unix(1, 1)
+	})
+
+	if now := timeNow(); now != time.Unix(1, 1) {
+		t.Error("test timeNow dit not get overwritten", now)
+	}
+}