Hi I was wondering, and actually have been a bit confused, that the *timeStamp *of a logging event is taken in the end of the *LoggingEvent *constructor. Just without further thinking, I would place this to the beginning of the constructor to be as near as possible to the actual event. Now thinking a bit further, placing the *timeStamp *to the beginning seems only getting more reasonable. The constructor contains logic, which depends on the given parameters. This logic will take some time, depending if the current event has a *throwable *or not. This time will be implicitly added as offset to the original event. If I create two logs within a very close time (few ms), one containing a *throwable *and one without, it might even happen, that the original order isn't guaranteed anymore, as, due the offset of the constructor running time, the first event finally might have a later time stamp than the second. So what is the design reason of taking the *timeStamp *in the end? I don't see a single benefit. Of course I still might have understood something wrong. regards marco