From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 04:40:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206094048.GE10508@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702060928.54440.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2007 February 06 02:31, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> > The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of
> > seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is
> > written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits. The committer's
> > timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset
> > from UTC, in minutes. For example EST would be expressed in `<tz>`
> > by ``-0500''.
>
> Is <tz> /really/ expressed in minutes? 500 minutes is 8 hours 20 minutes.
>
> I know what you mean, of course; and so would anyone reading it - so I suggest
> just dropping the ", in minutes" - as it's not true.
Heh, right you are!
Nico's point about using parse_date() here is a really good one.
I'm going to modify that section of gfi to use parse_date(), which
would change the language here anyway. I'll try to not to make a
silly mistake such as the above in the updated docs. :)
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-06 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-06 2:31 git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 3:18 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 4:06 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 5:48 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 16:35 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 16:56 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 17:20 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 18:53 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 20:09 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 21:03 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-06 21:15 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 21:42 ` git-fast-import Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-07 10:58 ` git-fast-import David Woodhouse
2007-02-06 6:12 ` git-fast-import Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-02-06 6:18 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07 4:55 ` git-fast-import Daniel Barkalow
2007-02-07 9:13 ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-07 11:17 ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-07 22:55 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07 23:55 ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-08 0:12 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-08 16:56 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 19:10 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-09 8:49 ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-09 15:47 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07 9:29 ` git-fast-import Raimund Bauer
2007-02-07 13:38 ` git-fast-import David Woodhouse
2007-02-06 9:28 ` git-fast-import Andy Parkins
2007-02-06 9:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-02-06 16:37 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-06 16:44 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 17:24 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07 1:17 ` git-fast-import Horst H. von Brand
2007-02-07 2:50 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-07 5:53 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07 9:21 ` git-fast-import Karl Hasselström
2007-02-07 22:18 ` git-fast-import Horst H. von Brand
2007-02-07 22:31 ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-07 22:39 ` git-fast-import Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 21:34 ` git-fast-import Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-07 5:46 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-07 4:45 ` git-fast-import Daniel Barkalow
2007-02-06 9:34 ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-06 9:39 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 9:53 ` git-fast-import Jakub Narebski
2007-02-06 17:20 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 13:50 ` git-fast-import Alex Riesen
2007-02-06 17:43 ` git-fast-import Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-06 18:02 ` git-fast-import Alex Riesen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-06 2:51 git-fast-import Jon Smirl
2006-08-06 3:40 ` git-fast-import Shawn Pearce
2006-08-06 4:09 ` git-fast-import Jon Smirl
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