If you have commits in the GCC repo, pleae send me your preferred IANA
time zone and/or place of residence *by private reply* - no need to
flood the list.
This is so committer *and author* entries for the converted repo will
get the timezone offset correct for their location and the UTC time
Subversion stored for the commit. The end goal is to make Git's
local-time displays accurate.
Note that reposurgeon mines /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab to produce a
default mapping between top-level domains of countries and timezones;
this handles, in particular, addresses in .gb, .de, .fi, and .cz
exactly. If you are in a country TLD of a single-timezone country, you
can ignore this request. However, beware that some small countries
have overseas dominions - your timezone may not be as singular as you
think, it's safest to report in and nail down your zone.
Those of you using addresses in the functional domains, or from large
multiple-zone countries (especially the U.S. and Russia), should
*definitely* report in with a timezone. Otherwise your attributed
times could be up to 4 hours off (11 in Russia!).
In an earlier version of this request, I enclosed a copy of the current map
I've omitted it this time to see if that avoids triggering the list spam
filters. There will be followup email about this.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only]
moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence
to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too
violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun,
therefore, be the constant companion to your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew.
