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Re: ChangeLog entry dates...
- From: Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:19:26 +1300
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry dates...
- References: <20070227230716.GQ13153@adacore.com>
> I have a question/suggestion regarding the date that should be used in
> a ChangeLog entry, like so:
>
> 2007-02-27 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> 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
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