Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-14 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:50:57 +, Mahmoud Asshole wrote: ... This was raised previously[1], but none of the responses are convincing. Please go directly to the special hell of debugging timezone-related stuff in customer data, for which this extra bit of information is heaven-sent. Do not

Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-11 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 04/09/2014 10:50 PM, Mahmoud Asshole wrote: [...] Please conduct your discussions here in a civil tone. It is both more pleasant for all involved and also more likely to elicit a response. I hardly think that the waste of 12 bytes in every commit is an act of stupidity so inexcusable that

Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-11 Thread Holger Hellmuth
Am 11.04.2014 13:08, schrieb Michael Haggerty: On 04/09/2014 10:50 PM, Mahmoud Asshole wrote: [...] Please conduct your discussions here in a civil tone. It is both more pleasant for all involved and also more likely to elicit a response. I hardly think that the waste of 12 bytes in every

Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-11 Thread Max Horn
On 11.04.2014, at 15:19, Holger Hellmuth hellm...@ira.uka.de wrote: Am 11.04.2014 13:08, schrieb Michael Haggerty: On 04/09/2014 10:50 PM, Mahmoud Asshole wrote: [...] Please conduct your discussions here in a civil tone. It is both more pleasant for all involved and also more likely to

Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-11 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Holger Hellmuth hellm...@ira.uka.de To: Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu Cc: Mahmoud Asshole a1209...@drdrb.net; git@vger.kernel.org If you look at Mahmoud's email address, it is from http://10minutemail.com/ 'the best disposable e-mail service.'. So it looks like s/he knew what

Re: Silly time stamps

2014-04-11 Thread Holger Hellmuth
Am 11.04.2014 17:14, schrieb Max Horn: More between privacy (or perhaps personal safety? think: dissident coder?) vs. feature that is useful to some people. Well, at least the reason mentioned in the gmane citation about knowing if it was 2 am for them, is strange. Did anyone ever check

Silly time stamps

2014-04-09 Thread Mahmoud Asshole
Hi, This is an example of timestamps are in git: tree c67dc912a777ef6198a5c76890ebf11cd8ccc625 parent 6e527d8e07a80058bf8ac46180e25a9d4cb745eb author my name m...@test.org 1397073956 +0400 committer my name m...@test.org 1397073956 +0400 testing again As you can see, it