Laurent CHARLES wrote: > We want to rewrite the revision time information within the > *,v files, but > not to change the date, only to change the way the date is > displayed. This > is because the old date format with 2 digits for the year > crashes viewCVS, > while it is ok if the year is written with 4 digits. Ah, gotcha. I'm wondering if it might be easier to modify viewCVS to handle 2 digit dates safely.
> I wondered if CVS uses this information (file timestamp), or > if it only > relies on the date information present within the files. I doubt that CVS uses the timestamp - there are operations that can change the timestamp of the file, without disturbing any revision information: adding/moving/removing tags, many of the 'cvs admin' commands, and so on. I would suspect you're probably safe (of course, apply the usual caveats about backups, being very careful, etc.). Have a look in the contrib directory - who knows, there may be a script already written to perform this conversion for you. This was probably a big issue for the Y2K panic (wow - that was over five years ago already!). -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts ) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
