Re: [Monotone-devel] git fast-export

[Paul Aurich]

And Felipe Contreras spake on 01/17/2009 02:52 PM, saying:
> I ran my comparison script, but unfortunately the first revision has a
> missmatch:
> 
> yours:
> author Tailor Script <address@hidden> 953780991 +0000
> 
> mine:
> author Tailor Script <address@hidden> 953773791 +0200
> 
> Which suggest that your script is not handling the timezone correctly
> (not sure about that).

No, his script is handling it properly (based solely on this example).

Monotone uses UTC internally and git does some crazy wacky things with
timezones (in short, the timezone shown is /just/ for prettifying the date;
the timestamp by itself *must* be the time of the commit in UTC). See
https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/2/6/237902

  $ mtn automate certs d137c7046bae7e4a0144fee82bfce8061f61e3b3 | grep date
-A 1
       name "date"
      value "2000-03-23T03:09:51"

  $ date -d "2000-03-23 03:09:51" -u
  Thu Mar 23 03:09:51 UTC 2000
  $ date -d "2000-03-23 03:09:51" -u  +"%s"
  953780991

~Paul