From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Date handling. Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:23:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1113506597.12012.223.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> References: <1113466592.12012.192.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <200504141919.j3EJJfG04166@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 14 21:21:25 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM9sf-0007BU-Bf for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:20:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261597AbVDNTXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261599AbVDNTXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:23:23 -0400 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.226.107]:42895 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbVDNTXU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:23:20 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by baythorne.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DM9vp-0000bv-OC; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:23:17 +0100 To: tony.luck@intel.com In-Reply-To: <200504141919.j3EJJfG04166@unix-os.sc.intel.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1.dwmw2.1) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.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 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