Re: [BUG] minor: wrong handling of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Is this because we do not initialize tm fields to "unknown" in the
beginning?  I admit I haven't bothered to look at this part of the code
for a looong time.

Indeed. The _exact_ date handling initializes the date to -1 (and the 
time to 0), but the approxidate thing defaults to "now" and then modifies 
that. 

Which is why we'd need to have a separate flags field for "I have 
initialized this field".

		Linus