Re: [PATCH 1/3] Move Git::SVN::get_tz to Git::get_tz_offset

[Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +sub get_tz_offset {
>> +     # some systmes don't handle or mishandle %z, so be creative.
>
> Hmph.  I wonder if we can use %z if it is handled correctly and fall
> back to this code only on platforms that are broken?

That would be perfectly acceptable to me.  The reason I set it up to
always run through this function here is that when I originally added
this function for git-svn, I'd made it conditional and Eric Wong
preferred that the function be used exclusively[1].  I opted to take
the same approach here to keep things congrous.

If it were to be conditional, I think I'd add a variable to the build
system and have the code leverage that at runtime instead of the
try/except approach I attempted in 2009.

Thanks
-Ben

[1] http://lists-archives.com/git/683572-git-svn-fix-for-systems-without-strftime-z.html
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