From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:23:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFz5TC5XWWEZkf=e3rJZFwvQJoFyvWSaNSTiQZM3-yiOKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170612211022.k7t2ywngrdcrkehn@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> I suspect nobody has complained because we generally encourage real
> "-0800" names when specifying zones.
That's what any sane person uses, and it's what SMTP requiries.
The timezone names are a (bad) joke. If a human can't understand them
(and people don't), there's no point in thinking that a computer
should either.
So yes, timezones should strive very much to be numeric. The names are
an incomprehensible mess. Don't rely on them, and try to avoid using
them.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-13 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-26 18:33 git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working Ulrich Mueller
2017-05-27 16:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-27 21:46 ` Jeff King
2017-05-28 10:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-29 0:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-28 11:43 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-02 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-02 3:08 ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 17:25 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-02 18:35 ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 22:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-02 22:30 ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 22:47 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-02 22:51 ` Jeff King
2017-06-03 10:40 ` [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself René Scharfe
2017-06-03 13:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-03 16:20 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-07 8:17 ` Jeff King
2017-06-07 9:13 ` [PATCH] date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats Jeff King
2017-06-11 17:36 ` [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself René Scharfe
2017-06-12 15:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12 16:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 16:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-12 17:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12 18:20 ` Jeff King
2017-06-12 19:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 21:10 ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 6:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-06-12 22:31 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-13 10:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-13 10:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-12 16:58 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-12 17:36 ` Jeff King
2017-06-15 8:46 ` [PATCH v2] " René Scharfe
2017-06-15 11:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-15 12:28 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-15 12:29 ` [PATCH v3] " René Scharfe
2017-06-15 13:49 ` Jeff King
2017-06-15 13:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] t0006: check --date=format zone offsets Jeff King
2017-06-15 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats Jeff King
2017-06-15 16:12 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-15 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-16 12:18 ` Jeff King
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