Could I offer an opinion: the time stamps DO NOT MATTER. If a comment was posted at 15:00 or at 21:00 ... I don't care. If it was a Monday or a Tuesday ... I don't care. I believe I'd rather stick a fork in my eye, than ask somebody to spend even 5 minutes on timestamps.
Cheers, -g On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Ivan Zhakov wrote: > > Julian Foad wrote: > >> The time zone offset appears not to be handled correctly in converting > >> time stamps (on Dates: Created, Updated; and on Comments). > >> > >> # http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1532 > >> Opened: Tue Sep 23 10:02:00 -0700 2003 > >> ------- Additional comments from Peter N. Lundblad Thu Jan 12 05:42:25 > >> -0700 2006 ------- > >> ------- Additional comments from Peter N. Lundblad Tue May 2 02:21:02 > >> -0700 2006 ------- > >> ------- Additional comments from Julian Foad Tue Feb 17 09:41:24 -0700 > >> 2015 ------- > >> > >> # http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/xml.cgi?id=1532 > >> <creation_ts>2003-09-23 10:02:50</creation_ts> > >> <who>lundblad</who><issue_when>2006-01-12 04:42:25</issue_when> > >> <who>lundblad</who><issue_when>2006-05-02 02:21:02</issue_when> > >> <user>julianfoad</user><when>2015-02-17 08:41:24</when> > >> > >> # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-1532 > >> Created: 23/Sep/03 11:02 > >> Updated: 17/Feb/15 08:41 > >> Subversion Importer added a comment - 12/Jan/06 04:42 > >> Subversion Importer added a comment - 02/May/06 03:21 > >> > >> The time zone in my Jira profile is set to London (GMT+00), and > >> probably assumes something about how to display local times in BST > >> (GMT+01). > > > > It should be fixed now. Please note that issue tracker on tigris.org > > displays time always in (-0700) timezone, while JIRA display in > > user-configured timezone. > > That's closer, but not correct. I checked some issue notification > emails to be sure. > > The time stamps in the PDT portion of any year are now converted > correctly, but the time stamps in the PST (UTC-0800) portion of any > year are now converted to one hour less than the correct value. > > I think the XML export from Tigris expresses a timestamp using PDT > (UTC-0700) if the timestamp date is in the PDT portion of the year, > and using PST (UTC-0800) if the timestamp date is in the PST portion > of the year. I guess you assumed they are all in PDT? > > I do not know exactly what algorithm the Tigris export uses for "PDT > portion of the year". However, the normal HTML view on Tigris is > (currently) displaying all timestamps as PDT (UTC-0700). > > In issue #4594, Bert commented at: > = 15:58 CEST (UTC+0200) (personally confirmed) > = 14:58 BST (UTC+0100) > = 13:58 UTC > = 06:58 PDT (UTC-0700) > > => For a time stamp made today (in the DST portion of the year), > IssueZilla now reports it in PDT in both HTML (labeled as "(+0700)") > and XML views (unlabeled). > > => For a time stamp made in the DST portion of any year, I assume the same. > > Julian's comment on issue #1532 > < > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.issues/27552 > > > = 2015-02-17 16:41:24 GMT (header of notification email from Tigris) > = Tue Feb 17 08:41:24 -0800 2015 (in notification email from Tigris) > > => For a time stamp made in the winter portion of any year, Tigris > currently (in DST) reports one hour greater in HTML (still labeled as > "(+0700)") than in XML (unlabeled). > => The XML is therefore reporting the time as PST (UTC-0800) and I > would guess the HTML is reporting it as Tigris local time (currently > UTC-0700). > > - Julian >
