From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46B33A19.60405@ig.com.br> <86ejikit99.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186152763 28935 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 14:52:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Vinicius Jose Latorre , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 16:52:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGyW9-0002Qt-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:52:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyW8-0007cV-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyVr-0007Tv-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyVp-0007TA-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyVp-0007T1-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from bc.sympatico.ca ([209.226.175.184] helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGyVo-00082M-2g; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.144.95]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070803145218.YQXK18413.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 339C48071; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:52:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86ejikit99.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 16\:32\:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75995 Archived-At: >> I've just noticed that entries timestamp in ChangeLog (trunk and Emacs >> 22 branch) are unsorted, that is, there are entries as: >> >> 2007-08-03 ... >> 2007-08-02 ... >> 2007-07-31 ... <<< >> 2007-08-03 ... <<< >> 2007-08-01 ... >> 2007-07-31 ... >> 2007-07-29 ... >> 2007-07-28 ... >> 2007-07-30 ... <<< >> 2007-07-29 ... <<< >> 2007-07-28 ... >> 2007-07-27 ... >> 2007-07-26 ... >> 2007-07-25 ... >> 2007-07-24 ... >> 2007-07-25 ... <<< >> 2007-07-24 ... >> 2007-07-23 ... >> 2007-07-20 ... <<< >> 2007-07-23 ... >> 2007-07-22 ... >> etc. >> >> Is this a problem? Should the entries be sorted? > No. The dates are when the patches have been created, the order is > according to when they have been committed. Actually, the date should be the date it was committed, so it should be sorted. 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. Stefan