Re: Changelog time format

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:

|> I noticed that this was installed, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful.
|> 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.  We can't add it to all
|> of them unless we get everyone to agree that the old format is better.
|> I doubt that we can get everyone to agree on the old format.  The FSF
|> would not have started using a new format by default unless they wanted
|> everyone to use it.

|> 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.

IMHO the best solution would be to install a wrapper in CVS that converts
the time stamps to the old format on checkin.  The only problem is that
the new format lacks timeofday information.

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