Re: git pull on ia64 linux tree

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 tony.luck@intel.com wrote:

"git log" seems to have problems interpreting the dates ... looking at the
commit entries, the time is right ... but it appears that git log applies
the timezone correction twice, so the changes I just applied at 14:46 PDT
look like I made them at quarter to five tomorrow morning (+14 hours from
when I did).

Looks like you are right.

The seconds are already in UTC format, so I think "git log" is wrong to 
pass the UTC seconds in to "date", and then tell date that it was done in 
the original timezone.

I think it would be nice to use the TZ data to show the thing in the 
timezone of the committer, though. Dunno how to do that, maybe something 
like

	TZ=$tz date -d "1970-01-01 + $sec sec"

or whatever. Sadly, it looks like "date" doesn't understand timezone 
syntax like that - looks like TZ has to be in the long machine-unreadable 
format like "US/Pacific" etc. Stupid (either TZ or me - maybe I just 
don't know what the right format is).

		Linus