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Re: Date handling.

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 14, 2005, 09:31 UTC
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<1113471061.20848.178.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504140153230.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 02:00 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I do like text output, but if it is painful, the "unix seconds" format is 
> certainly a hell of a lot simpler. And quite frankly, if we change it, we 
> might as well just change it all the way. So I'd almost prefer (1).

Text _output_ is easy to generate; we don't need to store text in the database for that. So I've changed my mind -- I prefer (1) too.

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dwmw2
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  1. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  4. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  5. tony.luck@intel.comApr 14, 2005
  6. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  7. Jan HarkesApr 24, 2005
  8. James PurserApr 24, 2005
  9. David WoodhouseApr 24, 2005
  10. Russ AllberyApr 24, 2005
  11. Jan HarkesApr 25, 2005
  12. Russ AllberyApr 25, 2005
  13. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005

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