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
next prev parent 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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