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    Come on, think about it. For simplicity, look at only HHMMSS (assume two entries from the same day). What’s the elapsed time between 12:00:00 and 12:01:00? It’s one minute; i.e., 60 seconds. But 120100−120000 is 100. Commented Apr 18, 2020 at 0:04
  • Obviously he didn't read the question because the main point is exactly getting rid of this customized timestamp. BTW after years I want to inform people that I solved the problem switching to a Unix timestamp, it is not as human readable as this custom one, but you'd better write a log parser script that shows you date in human readable form and let the system work on its own true low level time handling (seconds elapsed since 1/1/70). Commented Apr 18, 2020 at 4:04