From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:14:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] t0006-date.sh: add `human` date format tests.
Message-ID: <a5412274-028f-3662-e4f5-dbbcad4d9a40@iee.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqva37j595.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On 02/01/2019 18:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> We perhaps can use "test-tool date timestamp", like so
>
> 	check_human_date $(test-tool date timestamp "18000 seconds ago") ...
>
> or moving the part that munges 18000 into the above form inside
> check_human_date helper function, e.g.
>
> 	check_human_date () {
> 		commit_date=$(test-tool date timestamp "$1 seconds ago")
> 		commit_date="$commit_date +0200"
>                  expect=$2
> 		...
> 	}
>
> which would let us write
>
> 	check_human_date 432000" $THIS_YEAR_REGEX  # 5 days ago


Just a quick bikeshed: if used, would this have a year end 5 day 
roll-over error potential, or will it always use the single date?

(I appreciate it is just suggestion code, not tested)

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Philip