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Re: SVN Test Repo updated
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:48 +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> In article <20050217091502.GG19378@ay.vinc17.org> 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, ...
:)