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Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp |
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Date: |
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:52:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I've just noticed that entries timestamp in ChangeLog (trunk and Emacs
>> 22 branch) are unsorted, that is, there are entries as:
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>> 2007-08-03 ...
>> 2007-08-02 ...
>> 2007-07-31 ... <<<
>> 2007-08-03 ... <<<
>> 2007-08-01 ...
>> 2007-07-31 ...
>> 2007-07-29 ...
>> 2007-07-28 ...
>> 2007-07-30 ... <<<
>> 2007-07-29 ... <<<
>> 2007-07-28 ...
>> 2007-07-27 ...
>> 2007-07-26 ...
>> 2007-07-25 ...
>> 2007-07-24 ...
>> 2007-07-25 ... <<<
>> 2007-07-24 ...
>> 2007-07-23 ...
>> 2007-07-20 ... <<<
>> 2007-07-23 ...
>> 2007-07-22 ...
>> etc.
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>> Is this a problem? Should the entries be sorted?
> No. The dates are when the patches have been created, the order is
> according to when they have been committed.
Actually, the date should be the date it was committed, so it should
be sorted. Not sure about what should happen in case of merges, tho.
> Even if people would always commit immediately, we would not get calendar
> linearity because of differing timezones.
We've switched to UTC times some months (year?) ago, so this shouldn't be an
issue any more.
Stefan