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

[CooSoft Support]

   I was only referring to localtime vs UTC and not its format. I 
should have made that clearer :-).

   I do use the au stdio if extensively for mtn-browse. Whilst I agree 
the yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss format should be constant regardless within au 
stdio I would have thought it best that the time was localtime as we 
will get out of say mtn log. This will avoid accidental/confusing 
inconsistencies.

   System UTC time_t vs formatted string... Another thing to consider. 
If one is using C/C++/Perl/Python etc then it doesn't make that much 
difference, as there are routines to convert formatted time back to 
time_t or struct tm etc. But if you are trying to hack something up in 
say Bourne shell then it would matter a lot. At least something 
resembling a human understandable local time can be used as is without 
costly or near impossible conversions in shell script.

   btw au is still a presentation layer, its just presents its data in 
a more parse-able format.

   Tony.
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.
>
> On the other hand I've never written anything that consumed automate
> output.  Are there contexts where it would be useful to get dates
> (specifically, the values of date certs) still in ISO date format but
> converted to the local time zone?
>
> zw
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Support <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Presumably these "display times in local time" changes will also affect
> > any dates/times output via au and au stdio?
> >
> > Many thanks for making these changes btw :-)...
> >
> > Tony.
> >
> >     
> > > This has been requested many times - I just now got around to doing
> > > it.  You get output like this:
> > >
> > > o   -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > |   Revision: a12108115b1ba91ab5bc3cb58700f35c93fa18b0
> > > |   Ancestor: 31dc9889d2a9a1fecc4acf1abb8703aec3ea9113
> > > |   Author: address@hidden
> > > |   Date: 27 May 2009, 01:23:19 PM
> > > |   Branch: net.venge.monotone
> > >
> > > There's command line options and a Lua hook to turn it off and/or
> > > customize the date formatting.
> > >
> > > I think "log" is the only command that actually prints dates to the
> > > user -- it would be easy to change any other command that does the
> > > same.
> > >
> > > zw
> > >
> > >
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