From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Hellmuth Subject: Re: Silly time stamps Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:29:56 +0200 Message-ID: <53481884.6080806@ira.uka.de> References: <5347CD22.9010003@alum.mit.edu> <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de> <3B629BFA-C610-4B4A-9CE4-629C8930D334@quendi.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Max Horn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 18:25:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYeGg-0005T1-1e for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:25:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759585AbaDKQZW (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:25:22 -0400 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:57723 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754288AbaDKQZS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:25:18 -0400 Received: from i20s141.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.32.141] helo=[172.16.22.120]) by iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtpsa port 587 iface 141.3.10.79 id 1WYeGD-0004rq-KX; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:25:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <3B629BFA-C610-4B4A-9CE4-629C8930D334@quendi.de> X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de esmtpsa 1397233501. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 11.04.2014 17:14, schrieb Max Horn: > More between "privacy" (or perhaps "personal safety"? think: dissident coder?) vs. "feature that is useful to some people". Well, at least the reason mentioned in the gmane citation about knowing if it was 2 am for them, is strange. Did anyone ever check this timestamp to see if a patch was made at an unusal hour? What does it tell you? Some people sleep from 4am to 11am and do their best work at 2am. Only if you know someone you could infer he made a patch at an unusual time, but then you probably also know where he lives and have this information anyway. Your best and only indication of a sub-par patch is the patch itself. The only reason I can see is as a warning signal or indication that a patch wasn't sent by the person whos name is on the cover.