On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > > 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. Agreed. It _is_ "in minutes", but it's in an oddish human-readable base-60 format. It's certainly *not* decimal, it's more like "two decimal digits encode each base-60 digit in the obvious way". Linus - 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