Dmesg with human-readable timestamp

Default dmesg timestamp format:
[ 680.870878] r8169 0000:02:00.0: em1: link up
[ 680.870889] IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): em1: link becomes ready
[ 695.002667] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

On some systems dmesg has option -T
for example fedora 17:
[Вт. дек. 11 11:52:14 2012] r8169 0000:02:00.0: em1: link up
[Вт. дек. 11 11:52:14 2012] IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): em1: link becomes ready
[Вт. дек. 11 11:52:29 2012] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

for other situations there are scripts on perl and python:
solutions on the perl:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @dmesg_new = ();
my $dmesg = "/bin/dmesg";
my @dmesg_old = `$dmesg`;
my $now = time();
my $uptime = `cat /proc/uptime | cut -d"." -f1`;
my $t_now = $now - $uptime;

sub format_time {
my @time = localtime $_[0];
$time[4]+=1; # Adjust Month
$time[5]+=1900; # Adjust Year
return sprintf '%4i-%02i-%02i %02i:%02i:%02i', @time[reverse 0..5];
}

foreach my $line ( @dmesg_old )
{
chomp( $line );
if( $line =~ m/\[\s*(\d+)\.(\d+)\](.*)/i )
{
# now - uptime + sekunden
my $t_time = format_time( $t_now + $1 );
push( @dmesg_new , "[$t_time] $3" );
}
}

print join( "\n", @dmesg_new );
print "\n";

solutions on the python:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf8

# Copyright (C) 2010 Saúl ibarra Corretgé &lt;saghul@gmail.com&gt;
#

"""
pydmesg: dmesg with human-readable timestamps
"""

from __future__ import with_statement

import re
import subprocess
import sys

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

_datetime_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
_dmesg_line_regex = re.compile("^\[(?P&lt;time&gt;\d+\.\d+)\](?P&lt;line&gt;.*)$")

def exec_process(cmdline, silent, input=None, **kwargs):
"""Execute a subprocess and returns the returncode, stdout buffer and stderr buffer.
Optionally prints stdout and stderr while running."""
try:
sub = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)
stdout, stderr = sub.communicate(input=input)
returncode = sub.returncode
if not silent:
sys.stdout.write(stdout)
sys.stderr.write(stderr)
except OSError,e:
if e.errno == 2:
raise RuntimeError('"%s" is not present on this system' % cmdline[0])
else:
raise
if returncode != 0:
raise RuntimeError('Got return value %d while executing "%s", stderr output was:\n%s' % (returncode, " ".join(cmdline), stderr.rstrip("\n")))
return stdout

def human_dmesg():
now = datetime.now()
uptime_diff = None
try:
with open('/proc/uptime') as f:
uptime_diff = f.read().strip().split()[0]
except IndexError:
return
else:
try:
uptime = now - timedelta(seconds=int(uptime_diff.split('.')[0]), microseconds=int(uptime_diff.split('.')[1]))
except IndexError:
return

dmesg_data = exec_process(['dmesg'], True)
for line in dmesg_data.split('\n'):
if not line:
continue
match = _dmesg_line_regex.match(line)
if match:
try:
seconds = int(match.groupdict().get('time', '').split('.')[0])
nanoseconds = int(match.groupdict().get('time', '').split('.')[1])
microseconds = int(round(nanoseconds * 0.001))
line = match.groupdict().get('line', '')
t = uptime + timedelta(seconds=seconds, microseconds=microseconds)
except IndexError:
pass
else:
print "[%s]%s" % (t.strftime(_datetime_format), line)

if __name__ == '__main__':
human_dmesg()

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Dmesg with human-readable timestamp