Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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". What about this language? 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. For example EST (which is typically 5 hours behind GMT) would be expressed in `<tz>` by ``-0500'' while GMT is ``+0000''. -- 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