Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC
Re: Stefano Zacchiroli 2007-04-02 <[🔎] 20070402131123.GA11086@takhisis.invalid>
> 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.
If we want to (mechanically) compare timestamps we have to parse them
anyway. Parsing the timezone along is not even extra work, as other
posters here have indicated.
The main use for the timestamps for me is to know when I did the last
change, and there knowing the local time helps greatly.
What about supporting a variable DEBCHANGE_TZ in ~/.devscripts that
lets the user set UTC, but defaults to $TZ?
Christoph
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