Log not sorting properly by date

The logs on both my MBP and iMac are putting all my 2016 log entries in between 12/26/15 and 12/27/16, as shown below. This log is from the MBP and I'm also sending a report from the iMac, in case that provides additional information.

Schedule	2015-12-26 15:17:29	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 3:17 PM 
Action	2015-12-26 15:17:30	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta 
Action	2015-12-26 17:00:47	-------	Verify 3rd backup.quanta 
QRecall	2016-01-01 14:33:59	Minutia	Cannot connect to scheduler 
QRecall	2016-01-01 14:34:01	       	Installing system components 
Schedule	2016-01-01 21:58:03	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 9:58 PM 
Action	2016-01-01 21:58:04	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-01-02 11:49:55	       	Action 'Merge Layers in 2nd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 11:49 AM 
Action	2016-01-02 11:49:56	-------	Merge layers in 2nd backup.quanta 
QRecall	2016-01-02 12:16:03	Warning	Unable to open document 2nd backup.quanta 
QRecall	2016-01-02 12:16:18	Warning	Unable to open document 2nd backup.quanta 
Action	2016-01-02 12:19:27	-------	Verify 2nd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-01-02 12:24:27	       	Action 'Merge Layers in 2nd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 12:24 PM 
Action	2016-01-02 12:24:28	Minutia	Merge layers in 2nd backup.quanta 
Action	2016-01-02 12:25:12	Minutia	Install 
Action	2016-01-02 12:25:20	Minutia	Install 
QRecall	2016-01-02 12:25:23	Minutia	Removed resource link QRecallScheduler 
QRecall	2016-01-02 12:25:23	       	Updating system components 
Monitor	2016-01-02 12:25:24	Minutia	Cannot connect to scheduler 
Schedule	2016-01-02 12:28:53	       	Action 'Verify 2nd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 12:28 PM 
Action	2016-01-02 12:28:54	-------	Verify 2nd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-01-02 21:38:12	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 2nd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 9:38 PM 
Action	2016-01-02 21:38:13	-------	Capture to 2nd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-12-28 08:56:27	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 8:56 AM 
Action	2016-12-28 08:56:28	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-12-30 14:59:46	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 2:59 PM 
Action	2016-12-30 14:59:47	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta 
Action	2016-12-31 17:41:16	-------	Recall from 3rd backup.quanta 
Action	2016-12-31 17:43:02	-------	Recall from 3rd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-12-31 17:54:46	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 5:54 PM 
Action	2016-12-31 17:54:48	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta 
Schedule	2016-12-31 19:07:52	       	Action 'Capture MBP-HD to 3rd backup.quanta' set to run at Today 7:07 PM 
Action	2016-12-31 19:07:53	-------	Capture to 3rd backup.quanta

My bad.

The log entries are property sorted, the problem is that the dates are wrong. What's happened is that the timestamps in the last week of December have the wrong year, 2016-12-27 instead of 2015-12-27, which puts them far into the future.

The date formatter used to create the log entries was erroneously using the "YYYY-MM-dd..." format, when it should have been using "yyyy-MM-dd..." format. The YYYY specifier is the "year designation used in ISO year-week calendar as defined by ISO 8601", whatever the hell that is. Anyway, it's not the calendar year.

I've fixed it, but you'll have to wait until your log records get rotated out before they disappear. If you find it super annoying, just trash all of the log files in ~/Library/Logs/QRecall and restart. If you want to fix this without losing your log history, you'll have to get tricky. You could use an editor to replace all instances of "2016-12-" with "2015-12-", for example.

Ah, thanks! I didn't look closely enough to notice that the late December dates were 2016. Thanks for pointing that out.