Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: s/GMT/UTC/

[Tom Lord]

Yeah, if you want the rigorous partial order of revisions, you have to
go to the namespace and ancestry.   Dates are purely advisory.  Sorry
for the confusion.

-t




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    > At Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:18:48 +0900,
    > Miles Bader wrote:
    > > 
    > > Jeremy Shaw <address@hidden> writes:
    > > > Some people feel that the current time stamps are nearly worthless and
    > > > should be removed altogether. I think this is a bit extreme, but it
    > > > would prevent someone from mistakenly believing the timestamps can be
    > > > trusted to any degree. (And it would 'fix' one of the rfc2822
    > > > incompatabilities).
    > > 
    > > Note that the header name is "Date:", not "Precision-Timestamp:", and is
    > > of course very useful as such -- think "hmmm, this shit was comin' down
    > > in late september, what changesets are there from around then?".
    > > 
    > > [Did somebody really suggest this header is "nearly worthless and should
    > > be removed altogether"?  Have they actually ever used arch?!?]
    > 
    > But, once again, you can only trust the date based on 'out of band'
    > information -- like knowing that most people tend to have at least the
    > date right on their machine, even if the time is off by 10 or 20
    > minutes.
    > 
    > But I get emails from people all the time who have really wacky time
    > and dates set on their machines...
    > 
    > I believe the suggestion to remove the date stamp was mostly made
    > during a moment of frustration, when someone realized they had to
    > rewrite a bunch of code, because the date stamps were useless to them
    > at that time :) I don't think they are really advocating the removal.
    > 
    > Jeremy Shaw.
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