Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I share the feeling of "niceness" of the personal touch, but this isn't
> a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's
> easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid
> one.
It *is* easy to compare dates among different changelogs.
zcat /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz | sed -e '/^ --/!d;s/^.*> //' | \
while read i; do date -d "$i" +%s; done | sort -n
There, a sorted list of the unix timestamps of the dates on which *all*
the changelog entries of *all* Debian packages on your system were done.
Might take a while to run, though :)
And heck, even if you're not a command line guru, normalizing an RFC822
date by hand isn't exactly hard.
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:40:46 +0100
^^^^^
You didn't fail basic math, did you? ;-)
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