Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> That is not really a valid reason either because converting a timestamp
> from a changelog entry to any other timezone or format is trivial:
>
> $ D="$(zgrep "^ -- " /usr/share/doc/apt/changelog.Debian.gz | \
> > head -1 | sed "s/^.*> //")"
> $ date -uRd "$D"
"Trivial" is something I can do without having the need of thinking
about an implementation of it. I guess you spent a couple of minutes
writing the above shell script snippet.
But of course you're right in stating that it's possible and it's not a
big deal to do the conversion. My question is: what's the benefit of
localized timestamps? I want to know if the only reason we have is:
"just because it's nice".
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