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Re: [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2017, 18:15 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Please don't. Outputting invented information for something that
>> really isn't in the data is worse than outputting no information at
>> all.
>
> It's not invented information. %z being +0900 is the same thing as %Z
> being JST since +0900 == JST, just because some other things are also
> == +0900 that doesn't mean that JST is invalid or less useful than
> +0900 or "" for the purposes of human-readable output.

Ulrich is right. The issue is not if JST is a possibly correct answer.

GMT offset alone does not tell us anything about which one of the zones that happen to share the same value is associated with the committer (or author) time, and picking one at random to pretend that we know more than we actually do is a disservice to the users.

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Message 25 of 44 in “git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working”
  1. Ulrich MuellerMay 26, 2017
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 27, 2017
  3. Jeff KingMay 27, 2017
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 28, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2017
  6. René ScharfeMay 28, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2017
  8. Jeff KingJun 2, 2017
  9. René ScharfeJun 2, 2017
  10. Jeff KingJun 2, 2017
  11. Ulrich MuellerJun 2, 2017
  12. Jeff KingJun 2, 2017
  13. Ulrich MuellerJun 2, 2017
  14. Jeff KingJun 2, 2017
  15. strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itselfRené Scharfe, Jun 3, 2017
  16. Ulrich MuellerJun 3, 2017
  17. René ScharfeJun 3, 2017
  18. Jeff KingJun 7, 2017
  19. date: use localtime() for "-local" time formatsJeff King, Jun 7, 2017
  20. René ScharfeJun 11, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  22. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 12, 2017
  23. Ulrich MuellerJun 12, 2017
  24. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 12, 2017
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  26. Jeff KingJun 12, 2017
  27. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 12, 2017
  28. Jeff KingJun 12, 2017
  29. Linus TorvaldsJun 13, 2017
  30. René ScharfeJun 12, 2017
  31. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 13, 2017
  32. Ulrich MuellerJun 13, 2017
  33. René ScharfeJun 12, 2017
  34. Jeff KingJun 12, 2017
  35. strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itselfRené Scharfe, Jun 15, 2017
  36. Ulrich MuellerJun 15, 2017
  37. René ScharfeJun 15, 2017
  38. strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itselfRené Scharfe, Jun 15, 2017
  39. Jeff KingJun 15, 2017
  40. 1/2 t0006: check --date=format zone offsetsJeff King, Jun 15, 2017
  41. 2/2 date: use localtime() for "-local" time formatsJeff King, Jun 15, 2017
  42. René ScharfeJun 15, 2017
  43. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2017
  44. Jeff KingJun 16, 2017

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