From: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:11:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git
Message-ID: <DEBA236E-B6E8-435F-AC8C-1FC4AC69AD3C@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C5E28AF.7010809@gmail.com>

On Aug 7, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:

> On 08/06/2010 12:44 PM, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>>> Cool, it works!  (The 13:00 should have been 12:00, but there's some
>>> DST weirdness at work.)
>>
>> Something other than the fact that -0400 should be -0500?
>
> No, that's probably it; I'd overlooked the time-zone specifier.   
> Thanks.

Daylight Saving Time wasn't adopted in the US until 1918, so all  
Eastern times before then should be displayed as -500, regardless of  
the time of year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Josh