In article .com,
Robert M. Gary wrote:

Brad wrote:
The
regs make no distinction between VMC versus IMC or IFR versus VFR for
the purposes of logging time.

The safety pilot cannot log time in IMC.

Unless the pilot who is manipulating the controls is not instrument rated,
in which case the "safety pilot" must be PIC (and had better be
instrument rated and on an active IFR flight plan).

-- Dane