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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Mattias Andrée" <maandree@operamail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CET is only one hour ahead of UTC, it even says so in date.c
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:32:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gfl1imp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376649800-442-1-git-send-email-maandree@operamail.com> ("Mattias Andrée"'s message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:43:20 +0200")

Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> index c000f08..4dbaafa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ Git internal format::
>  	It is `<unix timestamp> <timezone offset>`, where `<unix
>  	timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
>  	`<timezone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
> -	For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`.
> +	For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead UTC) is `+0100`.
>  
>  RFC 2822::
>  	The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> -	`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
> +	`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0100`.

This timestamp cannot be in the CET timezone, though.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-16 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-16 10:43 [PATCH] CET is only one hour ahead of UTC, it even says so in date.c Mattias Andrée
2013-08-16 10:53 ` [PATCH] CET is only one hour ahead of UTC Mattias Andrée
2013-08-16 10:54 ` Mattias Andrée
2013-08-16 10:58   ` Mattias Andrée
2013-08-16 12:54     ` Jeff King
2013-08-16 20:32 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-08-17  3:52   ` [PATCH v2] CEST is +0200 during April Mattias Andrée
2013-08-17  6:36     ` Aaron Schrab
2013-08-17  6:40       ` Mattias Andrée

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