On 12/26/19 10:30 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Me, I don't undertstand why version-control systems designed for distributed use don't ignore timezones entirely and display all times in UTC - relative time is surely more imoortant than the commit time's relationship to solar noon wherever the keyboard happened to be. But I don't make these decisions.
So we are going to base this world wide free software endeavor on a source code system that doesn't keep time by UTC ?
My God - imagine if weather forecasting was done this way. -- Toon Moene - e-mail: t...@moene.org - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands At home: http://moene.org/~toon/; weather: http://moene.org/~hirlam/ Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran#news
