Re: Date handling.

2005-04-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 02:12 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I take that back. I'd be much happier with you doing and testing it, because now I'm crashing. OK. commit-tree now eats RFC2822 dates as AUTHOR_DATE because that's what you're going to want to feed it. We store seconds since UTC epoch,

Re: Date handling.

2005-04-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a UTC date, why would anyone care in which timezone the commit was made? Any pretty printing would most likely be prettiest if it is done relative to the timezone of the person looking at the commit record, not the person who

RE: Date handling.

2005-04-14 Thread Luck, Tony
I'd prefer not to lose the information. If someone has committed a change at 2am, I like to know that it was 2am for _them_. It helps me decide where to look first for the cause of problems. :) I'd think the 8:00am-before-the-first-coffee checkins would be the most worrying :-) It also helps