Re: Changelog time format

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message < 199805172212.PAA04043@rtl.cygnus.com >you write:
  > I noticed that this was installed, but it doesn't seem to do anything usefu l.
It's of marginal value (IMHO).   But I didn't see a signifcant
reason not to install the change.

If folks object, we can always pull it out.


  > Simply adding it to one of the ChangeLog files in gcc isn't interesting.
  > We either add it to all of them or none of them.
Well, 99% of our changes go into gcc/ChangeLog and gcc/cp/ChangeLog

And (IMHO) we probably don't want to go adding this to things like
texinfo, libio, libstdc++ which are maintained externally.



  >  We can't add it to all
  > of them unless we get everyone to agree that the old format is better.
I don't think we need to get everyone to agree.  We can't please
everyone, so we shouldn't try

  > Also, the change isn't going to force all ChangeLog entries to use the
  > new format.  I always create a patch file, add the ChangeLog entry to the
  > patch file, and then copy it into the ChangeLog file.  Hence all of the
  > patches I create on my Linux machine will continue to use the new format.
Absolutely.  I actually make my ChangeLog entries with a vi macro,

jeff