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From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zone
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:49:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BA3F13.2090003@fs.ei.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701260858.48212.andyparkins@gmail.com>

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Andy Parkins wrote:
> $ date --date="1970-01-01 00:00" +"%F %T %z (%Z)"
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0100 (BST)

nice observation.  yet, my system doesn't even have date --date=.  regarding the idea to provide a generic nice hook, it should be considered to convert this usage to a standards-conforming way.

cheers
  simon

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-26 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-26  8:58 [PATCH 1/2] UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zone Andy Parkins
2007-01-26  9:43 ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-26 17:49 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert [this message]

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