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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:37:58 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
> 
> Is <tz> /really/ expressed in minutes?  500 minutes is 8 hours 20 minutes.
> 
> I know what you mean, of course; and so would anyone reading it - so I suggest 
> just dropping the ", in minutes" - as it's not true.

Agreed. It _is_ "in minutes", but it's in an oddish human-readable base-60 
format. It's certainly *not* decimal, it's more like "two decimal digits 
encode each base-60 digit in the obvious way".

		Linus