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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: sverre@rabbelier.nl
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Date parsing
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:07:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484E98BA.70808@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0806100758xb41d08dh18e3051088b707e5@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier schrieb:
> Heya,
> 
> I noticed that we parse
> GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="31-05-2008 11:30pm" as "31st of July at 23:30 +0200"
> whereas we parse
> GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="01-06-2008 11:30pm" as "6th of January at 23:30 +0100"
> 
> Not only is it strange that we accept both orders (since apparently we
> don't resort to the latter order unless the first digit > 12), but
> it's also weird that the timezone changes based on which option was
> chosen! What does the list think about this? Is this "normal"
> behavior? If not, what (if anything) should we do about it?

Since you did not give a timezone, your local timezone is taken,
presumably MET, which has daylight saving time in July, but not in
January. This is OK.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 14:58 Date parsing Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 15:07 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-06-10 15:27   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 15:10 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-10 15:31   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 16:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 17:51       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-21 21:52       ` Stephan Beyer
2008-06-21 22:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-21 22:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-21 22:40           ` Stephan Beyer

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