On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:48 +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >AFAIK, Subversion uses UTC time internally, but always works with the > >local time of the user for the interface (I don't know what happens for > >ambiguous dates, due to summer/winter times). Anyway, Subversion has > >global revisions, so that doing a dichotomy is much easier than with > >CVS, and using times is not necessary. > > Bottom-line: it's very easy to shoot oneself in the foot while writing > wrapper scripts. The default interface will give you local time listing, > anything you generate from that will have localtime listing, so any > `nice' meta-generated information can have issues.
> Bad decision, IMO. And something to REALLY watch out for when/if GCC > switches to subversion. All of the "meant to be parsable" outputs (ie svn ls --xml) give you time zone info. If you shoot yourself in the foot after being given explicit information about what the time zone is for a given date, well, then, ... :)
