Re: [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:43:18 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:53:36AM +0000, Michael Witten wrote:

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One of the possible values for a date format is `local', which
specifies that a date should be output as though the date format
were instead `default' but in terms of the user's time zone
instead of the time zone stored by git; clearly, then, `local'
does not really provide just another format, but rather the
combination of 2 specifications:

  * A format for the date (`default')
  * A time zone in which to interpret the date (`local', if you will)

[...]

This patch series reimplements the original purpose of `--date' by allowing
the time zone mode to be specified independently of the date format
(see the commit message for [2] and the documentation provided by [3]):

I think the intent of this series is good. See also this thread from
quite a while back:

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112026

I took a cursory look, but I've spent so much time on this series already
that I don't really care what it says; if there are particular concerns
that you think I might not have met, then let me know in this discussion :-)

In any case, my approach is not only infintely cleaner than some of the
stuff I saw in that thread, but it's also complete and working (and it is
extensive without being invasive).