Re: [PATCH] show_date(): rename the "relative" parameter to "mode"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271356300.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271339550.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> Ack. I think this kind of thing is worth it regardless of any of the other 
> issues (ie the whole "changelog" thing).

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. Sometimes it's a bit hard to compare dates just because we show them as they were for the people who did them, not in any unified format ;)

I'm not sure how useful that really would end up being, but the whole approach of just having a "date mode" flag should at least make those kinds of things trivial if we ever really want it.

		Linus