On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > 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/^.*> //")" > $ date -uRd "$D"
"Trivial" is something I can do without having the need of thinking about an implementation of it. I guess you spent a couple of minutes writing the above shell script snippet. But of course you're right in stating that it's possible and it's not a big deal to do the conversion. My question is: what's the benefit of localized timestamps? I want to know if the only reason we have is: "just because it's nice". -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
