Python Logging: Specifying converter attribute of a log formatter in config file

Question

I'd like to have all timestamps in my log file to be UTC timestamp. When specified through code, this is done as follows:

import logging
import time

myHandler = logging.FileHandler('mylogfile.log', 'a')
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(name)-15s:%(lineno)4s: %(message)-80s')
formatter.converter = time.gmtime

myHandler.setFormatter(formatter)

myLogger = logging.getLogger('MyApp')
myLogger.addHandler(myHandler)

myLogger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
myLogger.info('here we are')

I'd like to move away from the above 'in-code' configuration to a config file based mechanism.

Here's the config file section for the formatter:

[handler_MyLogHandler]
args=("mylogfile.log", "a",)
class=FileHandler
level=DEBUG
formatter=simpleFormatter

Now, how do I specify the converter attribute (time.gmtime) in the above section?

Edit: The above config file is loaded thus:

logging.config.fileConfig('myLogConfig.conf')

Answer 1

Sadly, there is no way of doing this using the configuration file, other than having e.g. a

class UTCFormatter(logging.Formatter):
    converter = time.gmtime

and then using a UTCFormatter in the configuration.

Answer 2

Here Vinay's solution applied to the logging.basicConfig:

import logging
import time

logging.basicConfig(filename='junk.log', level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s: %(levelname)s:%(message)s')
logging.Formatter.converter = time.gmtime
logging.info('A message.')