Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> On 07/13/2018 02:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think generating the RFC3339 time stamps is more error-prone than
> > the "normal" date/time, especially if you copy/paste the latter from
> > the Git log.
> 
> Could we make it easier to generate an action stamp from the commit ID
> or from a position in a VC log buffer when editing a later commit
> message? The idea is to have something that is easier and more reliable
> than the current process, where I manually convert the timestamp format
> and time zone. I'm not surprised that others don't want to bother with
> doing that.

We have this tool called "Emacs"....
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