On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Chris Rorvick wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ben Walton wrote:
>> Neither %s or %z are portable strftime format specifiers. There is no
>> need for %s in git-cvsimport as the supplied time is already in
>> seconds since the epoch. For %z, use the function get_tz_offset
>> provided by Git.pm instead.
>
> Out of curiosity, which platforms are affected? Assuming DST is a 1
> hour shift (patch 2/3) is not necessarily portable either, though this
> currently appears to only affect a small island off of the coast of
> Australia. :-)
My primary motivation on this change was for solaris. %s isn't
supported in 10 (not sure about 11) and %z was only added in 10. The
issue affects other older platforms as well.
Good point about the 1 hour assumption. Is it worth hacking in
additional logic to handle Lord Howe Island? I think it's likely a
case of "in for a penny, in for a pound" but that could lead to
madness when it comes to time zones. Either way, the function behaves
better now than before.
(I wasn't aware of the half hour oddball wrt to DST, so I learned
something new here too!)
Thanks
-Ben
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