[Swift-devel] tz

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jan 14 16:27:59 CST 2008


I was referring to the changelog timestamps.

I wrote it because the previous changelog entry was... in the future. At
least from my perspective. It seemed odd. And funny.

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:17 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> This just appeared in CHANGES.txt:
> 
> > *** Hmm. Maybe we should use UTC for the timestamps. 
> 
> It probably shouldn't be there.
> 
> You can use UTC for timestamps if you want by setting the unix timezone to 
> that (either system-wide or in TZ to override per shell); similarly any of 
> the other 500 or so timezones can be used in the same way. That's the same 
> way it works for pretty much all other unix programs.
> 




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