Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2008-06-27 Thread Craig Small
I'm just reviewing some old bugs and came across this one. Personally I like having changelogs in my timezone for my packages and I believe that a lot of other people do too. Unless policy changes or there is a massive chorus of no change it then I will be closing this bug. - Craig -- Craig

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:58:28PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: What about supporting a variable DEBCHANGE_TZ in ~/.devscripts that lets the user set UTC, but defaults to $TZ? That would be a one-size-fits-all solution I would like. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007, Christoph Berg wrote: What about supporting a variable DEBCHANGE_TZ in ~/.devscripts that lets the user set UTC, but defaults to $TZ? Uh, isn't alias dch='TZ=UTC dch' good enough? -- Loïc Minier

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-04 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid one. Is

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Stefano Zacchiroli 2007-04-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid one. If we want to

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Robert Millan
Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.26 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure out when it was uploaded in comparison to other events (such as the

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:48:13AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.26 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:32:22AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:48:13AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.26 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world,

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Robert Millan 2007-04-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure out when it was uploaded in comparison to other events (such as the upload of

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:11:51PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Robert Millan 2007-04-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure out when it

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:11:51PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure out when it was uploaded in comparison to other events (such

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 02 April 2007 14:11, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Robert Millan 2007-04-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since dates written to changelogs are going to be read by people all over the world, IMHO it is better if these dates are in UTC to make it easier to figure out when it was uploaded in

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 April 2007 15:11, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid one. That is not

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: This is a nice idea. I think it should also be discussed on debian-devel and debian-policy. CCing -devel. For -policy I think it is too early (usualy, common practice is stablished before Policy enforces it). Also adding

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That is not really a valid reason either because converting a timestamp from a changelog entry to any other timezone or format is trivial: $ D=$(zgrep ^ -- /usr/share/doc/apt/changelog.Debian.gz | \ head -1 | sed s/^.* //) $

Bug#417262: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason It's nice to know if an upload was made at 4:30 am local time, va 6 pm local time. It says something about the possible condition of the uploader. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:57:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason It's nice to know if an upload was made at 4:30 am local time, va 6 pm local time. It says something about the

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-04-02 at 19:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Given how easy it is to canonicalise the timestamp data, the fact that it's data loss and the questionable utility of the information why is it worth it? Maintaining status quo is easy. Making programs that compare timestamps understand time

Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I share the feeling of niceness of the personal touch, but this isn't a technical reason, and the point of uniforming a timezone so that it's easier to compare dates among different changelog is definitely a valid one. It