Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone displays commit times in UTC, not local time

[Matthew Nicholson]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Tim Kettler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I just noticed that monotone displays the commit time for changes (printed
> > by 'mtn log') in UTC and not my local time. Is this the wanted behaviour? If
> > not, does anybody else see this or is it just some misconfiguration on my
> > machine?
>
> I wouldn't call it _desirable_, but it is the expected behavior.
> Dates are stored as strings in the database, in exactly the format you
> see them, in UTC.  When they're printed, we just print them out as
> strings.  This is because doing a time zone conversion is fraught with
> portability issues, and so it's more trouble than anyone's wanted to
> go to.
>
> Feel free to send in patches :)
>
> zw

Boost.DateTime can parse the exact string that we store in the database 
and convert it to local time.  It should be an easy patch to write.  Not 
sure how that would affect performance or if we are willing to link with 
boost date_time.

P.S. I noticed this issue too, and it is kind of annoying.  It makes 
using the dates in monotone some what difficult.

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Matthew Nicholson
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