Re: [PATCH] Add date format --local-zone

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 25, 2007, 19:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6q8w7hd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704250805440.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> Ie, it would be better, I think, to use a
>> 
>> 	--date=local
>> 	--date=relative
>> 	--date=UTC
>> 	...
>> 
>> kind of syntax, than have each date flag be different ("--relative-date" 
>> vs "--local-zone"?).

Probably.

> Btw, when you do "--local-zone", you should drop the TZ printout too, I 
> think. It doesn't seem to make any sense to give the *wrong* timezone.

I do not think the definition of "wrong" is so clear.

I would not disagree that showing the authordate in timezone the author was not in means --local-zone is showing a wrong zone, but "show timestamps in _my_ zone" is what the option is specifically asking for.

Originally I did it without timezone, but later I found it amusing to see "log --since=2007-03-10 --until=2007-03-12".

	Note: in TZ=US/Pacific you would see -0700 and -0800
	during the above commit-time range.