From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:13:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_date(): rename the "relative" parameter to "mode"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702280012250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271503140.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > Side note: one of the reasons I like having more fine-grained date 
> > > flags is that I've occasionally wanted a "show in UTC time" or "show 
> > > everything in *my* local time" option.
> > 
> > I found the --relative-date option very useful to that end, if a bit 
> > long to type.
> 
> That really doesn't work for stuff that is more than a day old. The 
> difference between "3 weeks ago" and "3 weeks ago" is not usually very 
> obvious.
> 
> (Hint: often they are days apart, but the relative date-format will just 
> hide any differences due to excessive granularity).

Maybe we need --relative-but-verbose-date?

Ciao,
Dscho