Re: ChangeLog dates

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:36:02 -0500
> 
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:12:13 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote: 
> 
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:34:00 +0100
> >> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> >> 
> >> When merging commits or applying a patch, should the date in the
> >> ChangeLog be left alone, or updated to the current date? In other
> >> words, should the ChangeLog date be equal to git's AuthorDate (in
> >> which case dates can be out of sequence) or CommitDate?
> 
> EZ> Until now we did the latter, i.e. updated the entry's date to the date
> EZ> of the merge.  I don't know what's TRT when ChangeLog's will be
> EZ> generated.
> 
> It's going to have to be the original date, because AFAIK it's part of
> the commit hash.

Of course; even I know that.  But the script that generates ChangeLog
from the commit log could modify the dates, if we decide that to be
TRT.