Are There 'Starfleet Regulations' that ''Order'' the Captain to Keep a 'Ship's Log'?

imagine ... maybe this is how it happens ...
@mythociate (21429)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 30, 2018 6:35am CST
I wondered this morning, 'Does Starfleet (what they call The United Federation's spaceship fleet) have regulations that command captains to keep a ship's log? to record an entry every day? 'I bet there'd be a lot of "nothing"-entries---"Captain's Log, Stardate (#####-point-#): another couple-dozen light-years today ... still---nothing. That is all." I 'Bing'-ed "Are Captain's Logs required by starfleet regulations" (and a few other similar search), and looked through a few of the lists of 'starfleet regulations'; but I found nothing about the captain keeping a journal ... not even a page that specifically outlined the role of 'starship captain!' So 'did' ('does'? 'will'?) Starfleet require captains to keep a log? Hey (conspiracy theory here), maybe 'the captain's journals' were the only evidence we have that Starfleet 'ever will have existed' (some weird paradox where they went back in time, an accident forced them to lose some of the ship's records in the ocean, Gene Roddenberry happened upon them while he was cleaning the brig or something, and he invented Starfleet after getting the files decoded and translated!
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JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
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30 May 18
It is probably much like the old time logs kept by captains of vessels traveling on oceans...no one said they HAD to, but it was commonly done
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Hope
@1hopefulman (45114)
• Canada
30 May 18
That makes sense and since the memory is not always reliable, written records might be useful in the future. Like the airplanes have a black box.
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@mythociate (21429)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 May 18
@1hopefulman I know 'the log' was probably used to "keep the captain sane"---on the ocean, after land disappeared over the horizon, 'the log' (a bit of tree-trunk tied to a rope & flung overboard, the rope stretching-out & pulling taut as the ship moved onward) was all the "proof" you had that the ship had actually moved!
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PLETHOS
@Plethos (13581)
• United States
30 May 18
im not trekky enough for this discussion.
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