From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:04:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr6n2KSZz5zPHeWiYHAP7Zr02Ti-e24AX1yR_XAXAKhscg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121128075807.GA9912@thyrsus.com>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> Roundtrip conversions may benefit from sub-second timestamps, but
>> personally I think negative timestamps are more interesting and of
>> practical use.
>
> You mean, as in times before the Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z?
>
> Interesting.  I hadn't thought of that.  I've never seen a software
> project under version control with bits that old, which is significant
> because I've probably done more digging into ancient software than
> anybody other than a specialist historian or two.

One example I've heard is someone wanting to throw the history
of a country's laws into git so they can diff them.
-- 
David