ChangeLog entry dates...

[Nick Roberts]

 > 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	
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--- 1455,1459 ----
  left-margin: 8
  fill-column: 74
  version-control: never
+ add-log-time-zone-rule: t
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