Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 2007 February 06 02:31, 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''. > > Is <tz> /really/ expressed in minutes? 500 minutes is 8 hours 20 minutes. > > I know what you mean, of course; and so would anyone reading it - so I suggest > just dropping the ", in minutes" - as it's not true. Heh, right you are! Nico's point about using parse_date() here is a really good one. I'm going to modify that section of gfi to use parse_date(), which would change the language here anyway. I'll try to not to make a silly mistake such as the above in the updated docs. :) -- 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