From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 00:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX6zG0z90coXz_Xzqvdp+9LpJ4RE2dAJggfLL-nd0nkWVQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>>
>> Here are some links to past explorations:
>>
>>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20160208152858.GA17226@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>>
>>   http://public-inbox.org/git/87vb2d37ea.fsf@web.de/
>
> There's a third and possibly least shitty option that isn't covered in
> those threads; We could just make a pass over the strftime format
> ourselves and replace %z and %Z with the timezone (as done for
> DATE_ISO8601_STRICT in date.c), then hand the rest off to strftime().

I do not know about %Z but certainly for %z that sounds the least
bad.

In a nearby message René seems to have come up with the same idea,
too ;-)