Re: [Monotone-devel] "mtn log" now converts dates to the user's timezone

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> At present, the only thing affected is 'log'.  My immediate thought is
>> that absolutely we should *not* apply these changes to the automate
>> interface, because that's intended for machine consumption; in
>> particular, you don't want to have to parse whatever arbitrary gunk
>> the user put in their date format spec.
>
> Exactly what I thought. Converting dates to some locale is something a
> presentation layer should do.

I could argue, though, that back-converting from the textual UTC date
format that monotone prints to a system time_t that can be handed to
localtime() is a huge pain, and monotone already *has* that code...

zw