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

[Thomas Moschny]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>> At present, the only thing affected is 'log'.  My immediate thought is
>>> that absolutely we should *not* apply these changes to the automate
>>> interface, because that's intended for machine consumption; in
>>> particular, you don't want to have to parse whatever arbitrary gunk
>>> the user put in their date format spec.
>> Exactly what I thought. Converting dates to some locale is something a
>> presentation layer should do.
> 
> I could argue, though, that back-converting from the textual UTC date
> format that monotone prints to a system time_t that can be handed to
> localtime() is a huge pain, and monotone already *has* that code...

Well, that's something different. It might indeed be easier for the
consumer to deal with a system_t (i.e. seconds since unix epoch) than to
parse the textual date format.

- Thomas