Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.9-10 Severity: normal
The dates that CVS shows to the user are not consistent. Sometimes they are in the server timezone and sometimes in the client timezone. For instance if you "cvs log", find the date of a revision, and use this time do get a diff with "cvs diff -D ..." it won't work. Usually I find the dates provided to me by "cvs log" are UTC (not sure if that's because the server uses UTC or because CVS does), but the ones accepted by the -D option are not (I think they're local time). The times accepted should all be local (as indeed they may be). However the times shown should either be local or absolute. Either is okay; absolute may be easier if the time is generated by the server - the server can append the timezone or use UTC time (and append "UTC" to the date) and the resulting time will then be useful anywhere. Actually even if the times are local the timezone should probably be appended (sometimes I cut-and-paste these times and send them to people in other timezones, for instance). -jason -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cvs depends on: ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: cvs/pserver_repos_individual: true cvs/pserver_setspawnlimit: false cvs/rotatekeep: 7 * cvs/badrepositories: create cvs/pserver_warning: cvs/rotatekeep_individual: 7 cvs/pserver_repos: all * cvs/pserver: true cvs/cvs_conf_is_dead: * cvs/repositories: /var/lib/cvs cvs/rotatekeep_nondefault: no cvs/rotate_individual: true cvs/pserver_spawnlimit: 400 cvs/rotatehistory: no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
