fix timestamp in reporting events.

If no timestamp was passed into a ReportingEvent, then the default was
used.  That default was 'time.time()' which was evaluated once only at
import time.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/reporting/events.py b/cloudinit/reporting/events.py
index 2f767f64..df2b9b4a 100644
--- a/cloudinit/reporting/events.py
+++ b/cloudinit/reporting/events.py
@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ class ReportingEvent(object):
     """Encapsulation of event formatting."""
 
     def __init__(self, event_type, name, description,
-                 origin=DEFAULT_EVENT_ORIGIN, timestamp=time.time()):
+                 origin=DEFAULT_EVENT_ORIGIN, timestamp=None):
         self.event_type = event_type
         self.name = name
         self.description = description
         self.origin = origin
+        if timestamp is None:
+            timestamp = time.time()
         self.timestamp = timestamp
 
     def as_string(self):