Re: RFC: dynamic "auto" date formats

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So I think what I really would like to see is more like a reverse > "approxidate" that gives the date in human terms. Yeah, "human" was the word I was looking for while composing my response. I am sure

Re: RFC: dynamic "auto" date formats

Linus Torvalds writes: > And no, I'm not at all sure that the 24-hour cut-off is the right > thing, but it didn't seem completely crazy either. I tend to like the > relative date format when it is "19 minutes ago" vs "2 hours ago", at > some point it's long enough

Re: RFC: dynamic "auto" date formats

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:36:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Note that this doesn't add any gitconfig setting to do this, which > would be part of the whole point if this is actually sensible. But I'm > not entirely convinced it's worth it in the first place, thus this > email to see how

RFC: dynamic "auto" date formats

This is a throw-away idea with a simple patch attached, which I don't think anybody should really take all that seriously per se, but I thought I'd throw it out and see if it generates any discussion. I almost never use anything but the default date format (DATE_NORMAL), but every once in a while