Re: git-fast-import
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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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".
What about this language?
The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of
seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is
written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits. The committer's
timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset
from UTC. For example EST (which is typically 5 hours behind GMT)
would be expressed in `<tz>` by ``-0500'' while GMT is ``+0000''.
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Shawn.
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>