Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] date: make "local" orthogonal to date format

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:16:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

John Keeping [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This is Jeff's original patch with my fixup for DATE_STRFTIME squashed
in and a new change to reject "raw-local" (in both Documentation/ and
date.c).

Even in --date=raw, we do show the timezone offset, so I do not
necessarily agree that raw-local is nonsensical.  That's the only
difference between the one I queued yesterday and this one.

Yeah, that's why I didn't change it in the original. But to be honest, I
cannot imagine any case where that is _useful_, so I do not mind at all
to declare it off-limits, even though it is not nonsensical (though it
is a little strange to ask for "raw" data and then ask for it to be
munged).

IOW, I do not mind either way, but the fact that we have to _add_ code
to disallow it makes me slightly in favor of allowing it. :)

-Peff