From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:54:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86abt8is7g.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5scwu29.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 10\:52\:18 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Actually, the date should be the date it was committed, so it should
> be sorted.
Wishful thinking. Sorting the entries without sorting the
corresponding commits is going to make an even greater mess.
> Not sure about what should happen in case of merges, tho.
>
>> Even if people would always commit immediately, we would not get calendar
>> linearity because of differing timezones.
>
> We've switched to UTC times some months (year?) ago, so this
> shouldn't be an issue any more.
Huh? Everybody creates his ChangeLog entry on his own. And not
everybody's computer runs on UTC.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 14:22 ChangeLog entry timestamp Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-08-03 14:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-03 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-03 14:54 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-03 15:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-03 15:55 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-03 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-03 15:51 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-03 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
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