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Re: git.git object database at kernel.org?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 00:32 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504251729080.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> No, mktime() always uses the local time zone.  It's the inverse of 
> localtime().
Note that this still doesn't make any sense.

A true inverse of "localtime()" should still take the GMT offset from "struct tm", and it would work fine, assuming that localtime() set that offset correctly.

So _I_ think it's incredibly stupid that mktime() looks at the local timezone.

Oh, well. Not a big issue except for the date conversion, and since there hopefully aren't any old repo's left, we can leave it behind us.

		Linus
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