Simple Logger erroring on init

Question

I am building a Rust app and I am using Simple Logger to log the init of my app. My main.rs looks like this:

use log::info;
use simple_logger::SimpleLogger;

fn main() {
    SimpleLogger::new().init().unwrap();


    let (event_loop, mut interface) = create_interface();
    info!("Game interface created");

the above code is erroring with:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Could not determine the UTC offset on this system. Possible causes are that the time crate does not implement "local_offset_at" on your system, or that you are running in a multi-threaded environment and the time crate is returning "None" from "local_offset_at" to avoid unsafe behaviour. See the time crate's documentation for more information. (https://time-rs.github.io/internal-api/time/index.html#feature-flags): IndeterminateOffset', /home/athul/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/simple_logger-1.16.0/src/lib.rs:409:85
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

I've tried:

• using try_current_local_offset with the time crate
• using Chrono

but the error still persists. It's likely that I do not have my time properly initialized for my app. What is the best (and easiest) way to do it?

Answer 1

the comment suggestion from Benjamin Brootz worked. So here's the solution:

SimpleLogger::new().with_utc_timestamps().init().unwrap();

this creates a logger instance with a UTC time stamp. All credits to the said user :)