On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:43:18 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:53:36AM +0000, Michael Witten wrote: > >> One of the possible values for a date format is `local', which >> specifies that a date should be output as though the date format >> were instead `default' but in terms of the user's time zone >> instead of the time zone stored by git; clearly, then, `local' >> does not really provide just another format, but rather the >> combination of 2 specifications: >> >> * A format for the date (`default') >> * A time zone in which to interpret the date (`local', if you will) >> >> [...] >> >> This patch series reimplements the original purpose of `--date' by allowing >> the time zone mode to be specified independently of the date format >> (see the commit message for [2] and the documentation provided by [3]): > > I think the intent of this series is good. See also this thread from > quite a while back: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112026 I took a cursory look, but I've spent so much time on this series already that I don't really care what it says; if there are particular concerns that you think I might not have met, then let me know in this discussion :-) In any case, my approach is not only infintely cleaner than some of the stuff I saw in that thread, but it's also complete and working (and it is extensive without being invasive). -- 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