From: David Woodhouse Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:23:17 GMT Subject: Re: Date handling. Message-ID: <1113506597.12012.223.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <200504141919.j3EJJfG04166@unix-os.sc.intel.com> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:19 -0700, tony.luck@intel.com wrote: > With a UTC date, why would anyone care in which timezone the commit was > made? Any pretty printing would most likely be prettiest if it is done > relative to the timezone of the person looking at the commit record, not > the person who created the record. I'd prefer not to lose the information. If someone has committed a change at 2am, I like to know that it was 2am for _them_. It helps me decide where to look first for the cause of problems. :) It also helps disambiguate certain comments, especially those involving words or phrases such as "yesterday" or "this afternoon". -- dwmw2