From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:10:07 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Gabriel Paubert Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Why these crazy timstamps on some ChangeSets ? Message-ID: <20011127081007.T23210@work.bitmover.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from paubert@iram.es on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:41:19PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: It means that someone had screwed up clocks. There isn't much we can do about it, we need increasing dates. On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:41:19PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed that Changeset 1.678 and 1.679 on linuxppc_2_4_devel and > 1.483 on linuxppc_2_4 have a date of February 23rd 2002. > > Quite annoying when browsing, because bk revtool displays all changes > since these commits on the same date. I strongly suspect that this will > last for 3 months or so, resulting in several hundred ChangeSets on the > same day. I use latest stable bk version BTW. > > I suspect that there is no simple way of fixing this, bk won't like any > fiddling with timestamps to make them more realistic. There may be a > complex way, based on bk undo and reapplying all the patches (changing the > date, user name and host name on the machine so that all patches get more > or less the right values, but it does not look easy). > > Gabriel. > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/