On 17.09.2015 09:06, Julian Foad wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >> Could I offer an opinion: the time stamps DO NOT MATTER. >> >> If a comment was posted at 15:00 or at 21:00 ... I don't care. If it was a >> Monday or a Tuesday ... I don't care. I believe I'd rather stick a fork in >> my eye, than ask somebody to spend even 5 minutes on timestamps. > Yes, I *know* they don't matter! Oops -- I should have added some > light-heartedness, a smiley, or whatever, instead of just writing in > plain serious tone. > > Ivan was sitting two metres from me and I told him in person, and I > made fun of my own pedantry. > > But I do have a serious point, and that is I feel sad when we, the > whole profession and community of dedicated and experienced > programmers, can't get such a simple thing right. (I don't mean just > on our side -- there are long-standing bugs filed against Bugzilla > about their end of this difficulty.) It's a little bit embarrassing to > me when we put up a public resource that will live for years with such > a simple mistake in it. I have sympathy for the "so what, who cares, > just spit something out and move on" prioritization here. That makes > sense in terms of value for "money". But for the above kinds of > reason, I do think it's right for us to spend a few minutes, even a > couple of hours, checking and correcting this sort of issue, *if* > somebody such as Ivan wants to donate that effort.
+1 > (It was already established that we'll be waiting at least a few days > for polling people about their user names, and other reasons, so we're > not talking about a critical-path delay.) 5+ years since becoming an ASF TLP is hardly on any kind of critical path. :) And I wonder why the people who're doing the least work on this migration have the most to say about not wasting time with "trivialities". -- Brane >> Julian Foad wrote: >>> That's closer, but not correct. I checked some issue notification >>> emails to be sure. >>> >>> The time stamps in the PDT portion of any year are now converted >>> correctly, but the time stamps in the PST (UTC-0800) portion of any >>> year are now converted to one hour less than the correct value. > [...] > > - Julian
