From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:59:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_date(): rename the "relative" parameter to "mode" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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