Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Make "local" orthogonal to date format

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:48:26AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:44:31PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> > [1] I do think the error message for "relative-local is nonsense" could
>> >     perhaps be more explanatory, but I couldn't come up with any better
>> >     wording. But if you have ideas, feel free to switch it.
>> 
>> My only suggestion would be to reuse the "unknown date format: %s"
>> message and avoid having a special message in this case.
>
> Heh, that was what I was trying to avoid. I wanted to avoid "I do not
> understand our request" and have it more like "I understand what you're
> _trying_ to do, but it doesn't make sense".
>
> I guess "relative dates do not depend on timezones, so -local is
> meaningless" would be the closest thing.
>
> I don't think it is that big a deal whichever way we go, though.

I somehow thought that the discussion was about raw-local, not
relative-local, but anyway, I think it would make more sense to
allow both of them.  If you define the meaning of "-local" as:

    Pretend that the event in question was recorded with your
    timezone, and show the timestamp using the specified format sans
    -local suffix.

that explains what happens for all the other formats well, and it
also makes sense for what would happen to raw and even relative, I
think.


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