Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] date: document and test "raw-local" mode

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2016, 20:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpopyvnrm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160727201651.GA26984@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I do find this by itself a little hard to parse. Maybe:
>
>   `--date=raw` shows the date as seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01
>   00:00:00 UTC), followed by a space, and then the timezone as an offset
>   from UTC (a `+` or `-` with four digits; the first two are hours, and
>   the second two are minutes). I.e., as if the timestamp were formatted
>   with `strftime("%s %z")`).

I also had trouble with what I wrote.  Thanks for a great help.