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
upload of a related package, etc).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.17.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                    1.13.25      package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                         4.1.5-1      The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.10     Gives a fake root environment

-- no debconf information
--- devscripts-2.10.2/scripts/debchange.pl~     2007-03-24 10:20:27.000000000 
+0100
+++ devscripts-2.10.2/scripts/debchange.pl      2007-04-02 09:46:26.000000000 
+0200
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
 }
 
 # Get the date
-chomp(my $DATE=`date -R`);
+chomp(my $DATE=`date -uR`);
 
 # Are we going to have to figure things out for ourselves?
 if (! $opt_i && ! $opt_v && ! $opt_d && ! $opt_a && ! $opt_e && ! $opt_r &&

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