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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Date handling.
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:23:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113506597.12012.223.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504141919.j3EJJfG04166@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:19 -0700, tony.luck@intel.com wrote:
> With a UTC date, why would anyone care in which timezone the commit was
> made?  Any pretty printing would most likely be prettiest if it is done
> relative to the timezone of the person looking at the commit record, not
> the person who created the record.

I'd prefer not to lose the information. If someone has committed a
change at 2am, I like to know that it was 2am for _them_. It helps me
decide where to look first for the cause of problems. :)

It also helps disambiguate certain comments, especially those involving
words or phrases such as "yesterday" or "this afternoon".

-- 
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-14 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-14  8:16 Date handling David Woodhouse
2005-04-14  9:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14  9:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 17:38     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 19:19       ` tony.luck
2005-04-14 19:23         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-04-24  3:04       ` Jan Harkes
2005-04-24  3:33         ` James Purser
2005-04-24  6:38         ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-24  6:43           ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-25  1:22           ` Jan Harkes
2005-04-25  1:32             ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-14  9:31   ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-14 19:42 Luck, Tony
2005-04-14 20:54 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 21:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:48     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15  5:02 ` Paul Jackson

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