Re: Repo cpnversion progress report

[Paul Eggert]

Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I'm not real happy about the action stamps being so long as it is.

How about a POSIX timestamp rather than an ISO 8601 string? 
"address@hidden", for example, instead of 
"2014-01-31T21:44:address@hidden".  Although it's just 9 characters 
difference, the savings add up when you're trying to read a screenful of 
these things.

The ISO 8601 string is not that readable, nor does it match the 
localtime clock of committer, so it's a bit of a magic cookie anyway.

As I understand it the first glimmer of Emacs in RMS's eye was circa 
1972, so even if we magically resurrected his original code the 
timestamps would never need to be negative.  We could say that 
time-since-1970 is "Emacs time".