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Re: hgweb and gitweb: Commit times displayed incorrectly

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THThomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Date
Jun 14, 2005, 16:25 UTC
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<20050614162541.GA27165@intevation.de>
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* Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gorzow.mm.pl> [20050614 17:45]:
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> Who is wrong there, especially with hours count?
> Here it's 17:43 +0200
> 
> hgweb:
> *16 hours ago: *
http://www.kernel.org/hg/?cmd=changelog;rev=30069
> gitweb:
> /11 hours ago/
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=log;h=e2c16499515aa044676a14b97a1b8a35f879152a
> My clone:
> author Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:36 -0700
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:58:58 -0700
Both are correct.

hgweb uses the timestamp of the "author" line, gitweb uses the timestamp of the "commiter" line. Mercurial (hg) doesn't distinguish author and commiter, therefore it uses the earlier time.

Regards, Thomas Arendsen Hein

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