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 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/^.*> //")" $ echo $D Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:00:22 -0500 $ date -uRd "$D" Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:00:22 +0000 Or if you prefer seconds since the epoch for easy comparison: $ date -d "$D" +%s 1172523622
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