Re: [Monotone-devel] ***SPAM*** Re: About certs

[Frédéric Praca]

Le Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:23:28 -0500,
Stephen Leake <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Frédéric Praca <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Second, automate output should _not_ be formatted; it is not
> >> intended to be seen by the user, but parsed by a tool that then
> >> presents it to the user. The tool expects the default formatting,
> >> and should not have to cope with random user settings.
> 
> > So my bug was not a bug so we should maybe revert it.
> 
> > In fact, I wrote after creating the Ohloh binding to Monotone which
> > required to provide the timezone in the date output. I just added a
> > "+00:00" by hand as a workaround.
> 
> > But I think that we loose the timezone information when using
> > automate.
> 
> Hmm. What timezone are you looking for? There is none stored in the
> database; all dates are UTC. I can think of at least two that might be
> relevant:
> 
> 1) the timezone active at the time automate is run
> 
>     get that outside automate; why would this be useful?
> 
> 2) the timezone active when the commit was made
> 
>     not stored anywhere; why would this be useful?
> 
> Is there another timezone you want?

> > So, adding date format allowed the tool that parse output to provide
> > the date format is waiting for but you're right, if the tool does
> > not provide the option, it will rely on user settings which is
> > wrong.
> 
> Well, your tool is adding the format parameter, so all is ok for
> your tool. The problem is other tools, that don't add the format
> parameter.
> 
> I don't think there is a way in monotone to tell if an option is
> specified on the current command line, or elsewhere (in
> some .monotonerc file). If there was, we could only use a date format
> when specified directly with the automate command.
Ok, forget it, it does not seem to be relevant.
I close the ticket as won't fix.

Fred

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