From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Miebach Subject: Localization: Timestamps get wrong if using different locales Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:08:56 +0200 Message-ID: <501E3828.40708@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 05 11:14:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sxwuu-0003sc-Oa for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:14:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754155Ab2HEJOU (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2012 05:14:20 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:53050 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754090Ab2HEJOH (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2012 05:14:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 303 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:14:07 EDT Received: from [192.168.168.63] ([89.0.184.116]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MbhFJ-1TEnQR1kN3-00IoGw for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:09:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:yqYT8RE31iu4p+9RVeZzWQOAUU/AspHOOP4ylBSaB01 fefgfV9NbFvVoXw5Hh1PbmWQtNnjQVbRQfQd9oulkLl6tWP4PG koo0M8NaDvh1yweMfhY/uuiVdMlx+NmLoce8gxwt8vreSXqpvo tjsVo9KUtwOic098svpV/VIg78ZMEryOPWYEWpc3WdwbLAkGjO Ay/DWDAFuOrsUhnMxM38t/KMry5EDaQNjBnSWxgj8I= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello! Running this commands locally (german locale) lead to some wrong dates for the patches upstream. git format-patch -o patches origin git send-email --compose --no-chain-reply-to --to some@address.com --suppress-cc=author patches/0001-l10n-Turkish-update.patch The local Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 became Wed, 8 Dec 2004 So it looks like matching DD=04=YY MM=08=DD and YY=12=MM German date format usually looks DD.MM.YYYY A workaround for me was running the lines with LANGUAGE=en I am using git-send-email 1.7.10.4 with the patch from here http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg05240.html but I do not expect this to do any harm here. Shall I provide more information? Regards Christoph