--- a/multimerge.py	Mon Nov 28 10:51:55 2016 +0200
+++ b/multimerge.py	Tue Jan 17 10:43:33 2017 +0200
@@ -50,15 +50,23 @@
     return gcm_log_levels.index(cfg.logging_level)
 
 
+## Return a formatted timestamp string
+def gcm_timestamp(stamp):
+    return time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", stamp)
+    #.decode(locale.getlocale()[1])
+
+
 ## Wrapper for print() that does not break when redirecting stdin/out
 ## because of piped output not having a defined encoding. We default
 ## to UTF-8 encoding in output here.
 def gcm_print(smsg):
     gcm_msgbuf.append(smsg)
     if sys.stdout.encoding != None:
-        print(smsg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding))
+        rsmsg = smsg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding)
     else:
-        print(smsg.encode("UTF-8"))
+        rsmsg = smsg.encode("UTF-8")
+
+    print("{0} | {1}".format(gcm_timestamp(time.localtime()), rsmsg))
 
 
 ## Fatal error handler