On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:30:07AM -0800, Pedro wrote: > Stephan Bergmann-2 wrote
>> Using pretty-printed dates would make it easier to disambiguate the >> seven-letter commit ID prefixes to the complete IDs (the commit >> date would help narrow done in which commit range to look for the >> given prefix). > May I argue that the Age code I propose on this topic fixes that > problem? > Since it is an age, there is no chance that in the future the code will > repeat itself. You may have missed that my "seconds since the epoch" (in my example: 1321480648) is also an age, and has mostly the same properties. It is somewhat longer than your format, since it takes an earlier epoch (the standard Unix epoch, 1 Jan 1970). I don't care strongly which epoch we take; IMHO the Unix epoch is a bit easier to handle since standard tools already know this format, but that's a pretty minor point. <shrug> As to the question of pretty-printed date or "linear time / age", well... pretty-printed date is human-readable and familiar, but more complicated for my brain to read: 6 numbers instead of one. Then, pretty-printed date is easier (even for my brain) to *memorise*. I fear it is a question of taste. Formally, they give the same disambiguation power. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
