Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > I noticed that we parse > GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="31-05-2008 11:30pm" as "31st of July at 23:30 +0200" > whereas we parse > GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="01-06-2008 11:30pm" as "6th of January at 23:30 +0100" > > Not only is it strange that we accept both orders (since apparently we > don't resort to the latter order unless the first digit > 12), Take a look at match_multi_number in date.c European ordering is preferred when the separator is '.' > but > it's also weird that the timezone changes based on which option was > chosen! The timezone didn't change. One date is in daylight saving time, the other is not. The offset from GMT is different to reflect this. > What does the list think about this? Is this "normal" > behavior? If not, what (if anything) should we do about it? There will be flaws in any system that tries to automatically guess the format. If there is not already one, perhaps a statement should be added to the appropriate documentation describing how to ensure that european ordering is used to parse the date. -brandon -- 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
