Re: [PATCH 2/2] date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 15.06.2017 um 15:52 schrieb Jeff King:
> But for the special case of the "-local" formats, we can
> just skip the adjustment and use localtime() instead of
> gmtime(). This makes --date=format-local:%Z work correctly,
> showing the local timezone instead of an empty string.

Documentation/rev-list-options.txt should be updated to mention that %Z
is passed to strftime in the local case, no?

> The new test checks the result for "UTC", our default
> test-lib value for $TZ. Using something like EST5 might be
> more interesting, but the actual zone string is
> system-dependent (for instance, on my system it expands to
> just EST). Hopefully "UTC" is vanilla enough that every
> system treats it the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> I don't have a Windows system to test this on, but from the output Dscho
> provided earlier, I believe this should pass.

The first patch applies with some fuzz on master of Git for Windows, the
second one applies cleanly.  A "typedef unsigned long timestamp_t;" is
required to compile it; such a fixup won't be needed for long, I guess.
t0006 succeeds.

René