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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 23:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271503140.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272322590.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Show 10 quoted lines

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I found the --relative-date option very useful to that end, if a bit long 
> to type.

That really doesn't work for stuff that is more than a day old. The difference between "3 weeks ago" and "3 weeks ago" is not usually very obvious.

(Hint: often they are days apart, but the relative date-format will just hide any differences due to excessive granularity).

			Linus