From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4448 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2007 23:19:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 4440 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Feb 2007 23:19:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:19:32 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (189.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.189]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B643D98AC; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:19:29 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id EADB14F6E0; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:19:27 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17892.48254.243673.405650@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:19:00 -0000 To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry dates... In-Reply-To: <20070227230716.GQ13153@adacore.com> References: <20070227230716.GQ13153@adacore.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.94.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00360.txt.bz2 > I have a question/suggestion regarding the date that should be used in > a ChangeLog entry, like so: > > 2007-02-27 Joel Brobecker > > I suggest we try to use the UTC date at the time the change was > checked in. > > With contributors such as Nick that leave at UTC+something in > New Zealand (according to email address), and folks like myself > that leave on the West Coast of North America, which is UTC-lots, > it's very easy to have entries that is one day ahead of me, thus > breaking the date ordering... I think something like below works, at least for Emacs users (this is what Emacs uses now). Yes, I know GDB isn't Emacs -- but it would stop people like me being a problem, and mean I don't have to set my clock to UTC (or set add-log-time-zone-rule to t in my .emacs). -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob *** ChangeLog 28 Feb 2007 10:58:39 +1300 1.8201 --- ChangeLog 28 Feb 2007 12:13:44 +1300 *************** mode: change-log *** 1455,1458 **** --- 1455,1459 ---- left-margin: 8 fill-column: 74 version-control: never + add-log-time-zone-rule: t End: