Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to a given time

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:36, Jeff King[off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 05:15:57AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

FYI, I am munging test-date to match the test script I am writing, so
don't bother with that patch.

Here is what my patch is looking like. Please give any comments, and
then I will resubmit in a form that will be simpler for Junio, which
should be a series with:

 - your patch to refactor date.c
 - this patch (this version uses the original interface to
   show_relative; I will tweak to match the new patch you just sent)

Yes, I think this is the only comment I can make.

+# arbitrary reference time: 2009-08-30 19:20:00

The world changed since 1980 :) There is already three things
happened at the day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2009),
and it is not evening yet (well, here in Europe)

+check_show 5 '5 seconds ago'
+check_show 300 '5 minutes ago'
+check_show 18000 '5 hours ago'
+check_show 432000 '5 days ago'
+check_show 1728000 '3 weeks ago'
+check_show 13000000 '5 months ago'
+check_show 37500000 '1 year, 2 months ago'
+check_show 55188000 '1 year, 9 months ago'
+check_show 630000000 '20 years ago'

check_show 630000000 '20.years.ago'?
(Arbitrary, non-whitespace delimiters, which was an
advertised feature, to make shell's life easier)