Localization: Timestamps get wrong if using different locales

From: Christoph Miebach <christoph.miebach@web.de>
Date: Aug 5, 2012, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID: <501E3828.40708@web.de>

Hello!

Running this commands locally (german locale) lead to some wrong dates for the patches upstream.

git format-patch -o patches origin

git send-email --compose --no-chain-reply-to --to some@address.com --suppress-cc=author patches/0001-l10n-Turkish-update.patch

The local
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012
became
       Wed, 8 Dec 2004

So it looks like matching  DD=04=YY  MM=08=DD  and  YY=12=MM

German date format usually looks DD.MM.YYYY

A workaround for me was running the lines with LANGUAGE=en

I am using git-send-email 1.7.10.4 with the patch from here http://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg05240.html but I do not expect this to do any harm here.

Shall I provide more information?

Regards

Christoph