From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:45:14 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702062337090.20138@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070206164441.GA4949@spearce.org>

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> What about this language?
> 
> 	The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of
> 	seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is
> 	written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits.  The committer's
> 	timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset
> 	from UTC.  For example EST (which is typically 5 hours behind GMT)
> 	would be expressed in `<tz>` by ``-0500'' while GMT is ``+0000''.

EST is always 5 hours behind GMT. During the summer, EST is still 5 hours 
behind GMT, but the clocks which use ET are set to EDT (-0400) instead. 

	-Daniel
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