Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of > > seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is > > written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits. The committer's > > timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset > > from UTC, in minutes. For example EST would be expressed in `<tz>` > > by ``-0500''. > > I think this is quite error prone, demonstrated by the fact that we > screwed that up ourselves on a few occasions. I think that the frontend > should be relieved from this by letting it provide the time of change in > a more natural format amongst all possible ones(like RFC2822 for > example) and gfi should simply give it to parse_date(). This is a really good point. Its a little bit of work to switch to parse_date(); I'll try to get it done tomorrow night. -- Shawn. - 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