Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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