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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 18:30:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170602223003.6etkdnnogb2jmoh3@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22833.57584.108133.30274@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 12:04:32AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Actually, the POSIX definition for %Z continues: "or by no bytes if no
> timezone information exists." So also returning an empty string would
> be compliant (but maybe not very helpful).
> [...]
> I agree that GMT+0200 could be misleading. But what about resolving %Z
> the same as %z in the case of the author's time zone, as was suggested
> earlier? It is supposed to be human-readable output, or do we expect
> that someone would use the %Z output and e.g. plug it back into their
> TZ?

Yeah, I think these are the only real contenders: an empty string, or
"+0200" (which _isn't_ confusing, because it doesn't have the
abbreviation in front of it, so it pretty clearly is an offset from
GMT).

I don't have a preference between the other two.

The remaining question is whether we want to care about preserving the
system %Z for the local-timezone case.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-02 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-26 18:33 git-2.13.0: log --date=format:%z not working Ulrich Mueller
2017-05-27 16:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-27 21:46   ` Jeff King
2017-05-28 10:29     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-29  0:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-28 11:43     ` René Scharfe
2017-06-02  2:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-02  3:08         ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 17:25           ` René Scharfe
2017-06-02 18:35             ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 22:04               ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-02 22:30                 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-06-02 22:47                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-02 22:51                     ` Jeff King
2017-06-03 10:40                       ` [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself René Scharfe
2017-06-03 13:13                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-03 16:20                           ` René Scharfe
2017-06-07  8:17                         ` Jeff King
2017-06-07  9:13                           ` [PATCH] date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats Jeff King
2017-06-11 17:36                           ` [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself René Scharfe
2017-06-12 15:12                             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12 16:16                               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 16:56                                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-12 17:53                                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 18:15                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12 18:20                                     ` Jeff King
2017-06-12 19:02                                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-12 21:10                                         ` Jeff King
2017-06-13  6:23                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-12 22:31                                         ` René Scharfe
2017-06-13 10:16                                           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-13 10:31                                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-12 16:58                                 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-12 17:36                                   ` Jeff King
2017-06-15  8:46                         ` [PATCH v2] " René Scharfe
2017-06-15 11:27                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-06-15 12:28                             ` René Scharfe
2017-06-15 12:29                           ` [PATCH v3] " René Scharfe
2017-06-15 13:49                             ` Jeff King
2017-06-15 13:51                               ` [PATCH 1/2] t0006: check --date=format zone offsets Jeff King
2017-06-15 13:52                               ` [PATCH 2/2] date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats Jeff King
2017-06-15 16:12                                 ` René Scharfe
2017-06-15 21:40                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-16 12:18                                   ` Jeff King

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