Re: timezone of svn server for -r?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org>]

On 2005-11-03 22:58:17 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Joern RENNECKE <joern.rennecke@st.com> writes:
> 
> > What timezone does the svn server use when I specify time & date with -r?

The date is relative to your local timezone (the one of the client).
The server doesn't use a particular timezone.

> From the subversion book:
> 
>     Here are examples of the date formats that Subversion accepts.
>     Remember to use quotes around any date that contains spaces.
>     $ svn checkout --revision {2002-02-17}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {15:30}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {15:30:00.200000}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {"2002-02-17 15:30"}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {"2002-02-17 15:30 +0230"}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {2002-02-17T15:30}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {2002-02-17T15:30Z}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {2002-02-17T15:30-04:00}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {20020217T1530}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {20020217T1530Z}
>     $ svn checkout --revision {20020217T1530-0500}
> 
> Use Z or +0000 for the timezone.

Or if you want to always use UTC, you can set the TZ environment
variable to UTC, possibly via a shell alias if you do not want
that globally.

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