From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:54:43 +0200 Message-ID: <86abt8is7g.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> 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 1186154094 1401 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 15:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Vinicius Jose Latorre , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 17:14:50 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 1IGyrC-0001xM-CT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:14:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyr0-0007jc-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyYK-0007uK-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyYH-0007u6-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGyYH-0007u3-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGyYE-0008ST-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09261 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:54:36 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 31310 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2007 14:54:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2007 14:54:43 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE8E98FA2F; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:54:43 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 10\:52\:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75996 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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