From: Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:12:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] t0006-date.sh: add `human` date format tests.
Message-ID: <3321253.lROl3XOJ1W@thunderbird>
In-Reply-To: <20190103074421.GC24925@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thursday, January 3, 2019 12:44:22 AM MST Jeff King wrote:
> We already have $TEST_DATE_NOW, which "test-tool date" will respect for
> various commands to pretend that it's currently a particular time. I
> think you'd need to add a sub-command similar to "relative" (which
> directly calls show_date_relative()) which calls into the "human" code.

I'll investigate.  Looks like this comment is related other comments.

> Note that there _isn't_ a way to have actual non-test git programs read
> the current time from an environment variable (as opposed to actually
> calling gettimeofday()).
Agreed

> 
> -Peff