From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:58:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git.git object database at kernel.org?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504251756190.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <426D8FDF.5050608@zytor.com>



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