From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:50:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] date: document and test "raw-local" mode
Message-ID: <20160711165000.GD3890@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160711050617.GD32514@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:06:17AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> The documentation claims that "raw-local" does not work. It
> does, but the end result is rather subtle. Let's describe it
> in better detail, and test to make sure it works (namely,
> the epoch time doesn't change, but the zone does).

Maybe add an editorial statement that in most cases this isn't
particularly useful?  Documenting raw-local implies that someone might
want to consider using it, and it's not clear to me folks should ever
try --- they're more likely to confuse themselves more than anything
else.

					- Ted