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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 00:58 UTC
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Oh well.  If you have the offset, the algorithm is fully arithmetric and 
> doesn't rely on the zoneinfo system, so it can be trivially implemented.

You have a different definition of "trivial" than I do. I have not a frigging clue how to handle leap seconds etc ;)

>    And again, curl_gettime() does handle the whole string to time_t 
> conversion of the common formats.

I don't doubt you, I just would prefer to not rely on boutique libraries too much.

Yeah, we already use it for http-pull, so I guess it's moot, but at least that felt less like a core command..

		Linus
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