From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:06:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL
Message-ID: <7vvcy6tjf1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <08195d5d-bd90-49d3-a1a6-63be0d833110-mfwitten@gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:

> Allow me to restate what I think you are saying:
>
> How about having [the still deprecated] --date=local (that is, DATE_LOCAL)
> option produce the old behavior, but have every combination of date mode
> options that does not involve DATE_LOCAL always emit the time zone.
>
> In other words, all of these do not emit a time zone:
>
>   --date=local
>   --date=local --time-zone=local
>   --date=local --time-zone=default   # --time-zone is ignored for simplicity.

Yeah.  It is even plausible to extend --date further so that we can
express things like

    --date='%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y'
    --date='%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %z'

The former would be equivalent to --date[-format]=local, the latter would
be equivalent to --date[-format]=default.

Or something like that [warning: without morning caffeine yet] :-)