On Thursday, January 3, 2019 2:45:39 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote: > Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> writes: > >> > >> check_human_date 432000 "$THIS_YEAR_REGEX" # 5 days ago > > > > Just a quick bikeshed: if used, would this have a year end 5 day > > roll-over error potential, or will it always use the single date? > > Hmph, interesting point. Indeed, date.c::show_date_normal() decides > to hide the year portion if the timestamp and the current time share > the same year, so on Thu Jan 3rd, an attempt to show a commit made > on Mon Dec 31st of the same week would end up showing the year, so > yes, I agree with you that the above would break. >
Thanks Philip. I wrote the test just before the new year so didn't see the rollover. I haven't run the test this year. sps
