On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 01:05:28AM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 3. The epoch times for the latter lines should match. > > FWIW, I think the epoch time is the most practical way to transfer the > time of a commit into a different program. When this program wants to > do it's own date arithmetic with it, unix time is just nice (no time > format parsing needed). > > That's why it would be good if the unix time values could be relied on. Oh, I agree that unix times are handy. I just think that "use %at in the pretty-format, instead of %ad and then %s in the date-format" is not such a bad workaround. > Conclusion: in addition to 3., I wished both epoch times were also > correct per se. The %at one should be correct, no? If it's not, that's a separate bug. -Peff -- 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