Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > is to suffix it with a date:
> >
> >          Gnulib 552c0b06355a6720c8ce87ce305f42ed15a32d20 (2024-12-28)
> 
> I agree. Even the date is more human friendly, so how about
> 
>   Gnulib 2024-12-28 (552c0b06355a6720c8ce87ce305f42ed15a32d20)
Yes, this is even better. It answers the user's question "was it a recent
gnulib?" more succintly. In this presentation, the commit ID serves only
to disambiguate among several commits that happened on the same date.

> The TZ question arise here again (git commit timestamp vs TZ-less
> ChangeLog date), but let's hope it won't be a big problem in practice.

Right. For a question "was it a recent gnulib?" neither the time in the day
nor the time zone matter.

Bruno




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