Re: git-fast-import

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2007, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702060836180.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702060928.54440.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> 
> Is <tz> /really/ expressed in minutes?  500 minutes is 8 hours 20 minutes.
> 
> I know what you mean, of course; and so would anyone reading it - so I suggest 
> just dropping the ", in minutes" - as it's not true.

Agreed. It _is_ "in minutes", but it's in an oddish human-readable base-60 format. It's certainly *not* decimal, it's more like "two decimal digits encode each base-60 digit in the obvious way".

		Linus

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