On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I share the feeling of "niceness" of the personal touch, but this isn't > a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's > easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid > one.
It *is* easy to compare dates among different changelogs. zcat /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz | sed -e '/^ --/!d;s/^.*> //' | \ while read i; do date -d "$i" +%s; done | sort -n There, a sorted list of the unix timestamps of the dates on which *all* the changelog entries of *all* Debian packages on your system were done. Might take a while to run, though :) And heck, even if you're not a command line guru, normalizing an RFC822 date by hand isn't exactly hard. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:40:46 +0100 ^^^^^ You didn't fail basic math, did you? ;-) -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]