From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:51:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working
Message-ID: <20170602225148.drkl7obwhzypgjtr@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <22833.60191.771422.3111@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> >>>>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > The remaining question is whether we want to care about preserving the
> > system %Z for the local-timezone case.
> 
> No strong preference here. Maybe go for consistency, and have %Z
> always return the same format (either empty, or same as %z). That
> would at least prevent surprises when users switch from format-local
> to format.

It also a lot easier to implement, which is nice.

I agree on the least surprise thing, but the flipside of this is that
Git's use of strftime will behave differently than other programs on the
system (e.g., "date +%Z").

-Peff