From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:32:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CET is only one hour ahead of UTC, it even says so in date.c
Message-ID: <877gfl1imp.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1376649800-442-1-git-send-email-maandree@operamail.com>

Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> index c000f08..4dbaafa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ Git internal format::
>  	It is `<unix timestamp> <timezone offset>`, where `<unix
>  	timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
>  	`<timezone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
> -	For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`.
> +	For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead UTC) is `+0100`.
>  
>  RFC 2822::
>  	The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> -	`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
> +	`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0100`.

This timestamp cannot be in the CET timezone, though.

Andreas.

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