Re: [Bug] git-log prints wrong unixtime with --date=format:%s

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 19, 2016, 01:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20160519015455.GB24225@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87r3cz55mv.fsf@web.de>

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 01:05:28AM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >   3. The epoch times for the latter lines should match.
> 
> FWIW, I think the epoch time is the most practical way to transfer the
> time of a commit into a different program.  When this program wants to
> do it's own date arithmetic with it, unix time is just nice (no time
> format parsing needed).
> 
> That's why it would be good if the unix time values could be relied on.

Oh, I agree that unix times are handy. I just think that "use %at in the pretty-format, instead of %ad and then %s in the date-format" is not such a bad workaround.

> Conclusion: in addition to 3., I wished both epoch times were also
> correct per se.

The %at one should be correct, no? If it's not, that's a separate bug.

-Peff