Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Have you read > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124082/focus=124092 I hadn't but have now. I don't buy the idea that this date is an unused placeholder in mbox files, and therefore can be sensibly set to an arbitary constant date in the distant past. RFC4155 appendix A defines this date as the date a message was received. This isn't directly applicable to the context of format-patch, but other users of mbox format (e.g. MUAs doing an fcc) tend to fill it with the date the message was generated, and might reasonably expect to be able to sort on this date, e.g. when displaying a drafts folder. If nothing else, it's extremely surprising to run format-patch, see a ridiculous date and wonder how your system time has become corrupted while you've been working! Cheers, Chris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html