Re: [Monotone-devel] "mtn log" now converts dates to the user's timezone

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 27 May 2009 13:25:54 -0700, Zack Weinberg 
<address@hidden> said:

zackw> This has been requested many times - I just now got around to doing
zackw> it.  You get output like this:
zackw> 
zackw> o   -----------------------------------------------------------------
zackw> |   Revision: a12108115b1ba91ab5bc3cb58700f35c93fa18b0
zackw> |   Ancestor: 31dc9889d2a9a1fecc4acf1abb8703aec3ea9113
zackw> |   Author: address@hidden
zackw> |   Date: 27 May 2009, 01:23:19 PM
zackw> |   Branch: net.venge.monotone
zackw> 
zackw> There's command line options and a Lua hook to turn it off and/or
zackw> customize the date formatting.
zackw> 
zackw> I think "log" is the only command that actually prints dates to the
zackw> user -- it would be easy to change any other command that does the
zackw> same.

Mmm, maybe we should think of having the --date option take local time
specs as well then...  I've seen many users get confused by date
inconsistensies in other software...

Cheers,
Richard

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