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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael Dulfer <rafael@dulfer.be>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>,
	Rafael Dulfer <rafael.dulfer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: clarify git-log default date format
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:58:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy1phxabi.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <230201.864js5q9sv.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:28:05 +0100")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>> That is
>>
>>     The default format `--date=default` shows a single line with
>>     three-letter day of the week, three-letter month, day-of-month,
>>     hour-minute-second in the "HH:MM:SS" format, followed by 4-digit
>>     year, plus timezone information unless the local time zone is
>>     used (e.g. "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000").
>>
>> or something like that.
>
> I think that following such a description in prose is still more
> confusing than just showing an example. E.g. we could say:
> 	
> 	Assuming a user in timezone +0200 (Central Europe) values of

Add "on day X at time Y" here, and I'd buy that ;-)

> 	these `--date` argument would produce:
> 	
> 	|---------------+--------------------------------|
> 	| rfc2822       | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:13:13 -0700 |
> 	| rfc2822-local | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:13:13 +0200 |
> 	| default       | Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700  |
> 	| default-local | Fri Apr 8 00:13:13 2005        |
> 	|---------------+--------------------------------|


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-01 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-01 15:57 [PATCH] rev-list: clarify git-log default date format Rafael Dulfer
2023-02-01 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-01 22:28   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-02-01 22:58     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-02-02 11:37       ` Rafael Dulfer
2023-02-02 16:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-02 16:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16  0:42             ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16  2:15               ` Jeff King
2023-02-16  2:58                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 16:29               ` [PATCH v3] " Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 17:24                 ` Jeff King
2023-02-01 22:47   ` [PATCH] " Jeff King

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