Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/23560 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: watchdog.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: njivy Updated by: njivy Status: patch In watchdog.module I propose changing the key used to sort logs chronologically. Instead of using the timestamp, which is accurate only to the nearest second, we could use the log entry id ("wid" in the database). As I understand it, the IDs are assigned sequentially, so this is a good approximation to the correct order in which the events are recorded. Also, I don't know of any events that are recorded after a delay. The problem with the current sorting key arises when logged events come within 1 second of each other. The order of events is not always preserved when viewing the log because the timestamp is identical for several events. In "modules/watchdog.module" neard line 91, the word "timestamp" is replaced with "wid": $header = array( ' ', array('data' => t('Type'), 'field' => 'w.type'), array('data' => t('Date'), 'field' => 'w.wid', 'sort' => 'desc'), array('data' => t('Message'), 'field' => 'w.message'), array('data' => t('User'), 'field' => 'u.name'), array('data' => t('Operations'), 'colspan' => '2') ); Preliminary testing suggests this is a good tweak. njivy