From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:32:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git.git object database at kernel.org?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504251729080.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <426D3B01.8060408@zytor.com>



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