From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:48:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181643190.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <437E6CAB.8060200@op5.se>



On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> nox!exon:~$ date --iso-8601=seconds
> 2005-11-19T01:04:56+0100
> 
> No human will spell it with T though.

Git doesn't care.

	./test-date 2005-11-19T01:04:56+0100

results in

	2005-11-19T01:04:56+0100 -> 1132358696 +0100 -> Fri Nov 18 16:04:56 2005

which should be correct: I'm in PST, test-date shows the "git time" 
(seconds since the epoch plus TZ) and then the local time in 
human-readable ascii.

The "T" to the git date parser is just a superfluous character that just 
happens to be a perfectly valid way to separate out the numbers ;)

		Linus