From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Date handling. Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:31:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1113471061.20848.178.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <1113466592.12012.192.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 14 11:28:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM0dg-0007Rj-6E for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:27:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261466AbVDNJbH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:31:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261468AbVDNJbH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:31:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:25578 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261466AbVDNJbF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:31:05 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-stn.redhat.com ([62.200.124.98] helo=hades.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DM0gi-0007Wa-5O; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:31:04 +0100 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1.dwmw2.1) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 02:00 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I do like text output, but if it is painful, the "unix seconds" format is > certainly a hell of a lot simpler. And quite frankly, if we change it, we > might as well just change it all the way. So I'd almost prefer (1). Text _output_ is easy to generate; we don't need to store text in the database for that. So I've changed my mind -- I prefer (1) too. -- dwmw2