Now gitk can be configured to display author and commit dates in their original timezone, by putting %z into datetimeformat in ~/.gitk. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx> --- Re-sending from 2011: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165286/focus=174786 gitk | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gitk b/gitk index 90764e8..b4712cd 100755 --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -11575,7 +11575,29 @@ proc prefsok {} { proc formatdate {d} { global datetimeformat if {$d ne {}} { - set d [clock format [lindex $d 0] -format $datetimeformat] + # If $datetimeformat includes a timezone, display in the + # timezone of the argument. Otherwise, display in local time. + if {[string match {*%[zZ]*} $datetimeformat]} { + if {[catch {set d [clock format [lindex $d 0] -timezone [lindex $d 1] -format $datetimeformat]}]} { + # Tcl < 8.5 does not support -timezone. Emulate it by + # setting TZ (e.g. TZ=<-0430>+04:30). + global env + if {[info exists env(TZ)]} { + set savedTZ $env(TZ) + } + set zone [lindex $d 1] + set sign [string map {+ - - +} [string index $zone 0]] + set env(TZ) <$zone>$sign[string range $zone 1 2]:[string range $zone 3 4] + set d [clock format [lindex $d 0] -format $datetimeformat] + if {[info exists savedTZ]} { + set env(TZ) $savedTZ + } else { + unset env(TZ) + } + } + } else { + set d [clock format [lindex $d 0] -format $datetimeformat] + } } return $d } -- 2.0.0.rc3 -- 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