From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Message-ID: <200702070117.l171HGxr023213@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <20070206164441.GA4949@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

[...]

> 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''.

That is /not/ a timezone! Maybe an offset from UTC.
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