BACKGROUNG

ELOG is storage date and time in unix time: seconds after epoch (Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 UTC 1970).

    date -u -d @0

On "Sun Sep  9 03:46:39 CEST 2001" the unix time counter is passing from a presentation of 9 digits to 10 digits.

    date -d @999999999
 

ISSUE

For sorting dates ELOG is using the character representation of the unix time. When ELOG contains dates on both
side of this 9 - 10 digits border sorting get confused.

 
WORKAROUND

in adding a leading 0 (zero) to the internal storage of dates in ELOG files we get over this problem.

On unix based system in can be easily achived with a sed command against the .log files:

    sed -i 's/modification: 9/modification: 09/g' *.log