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<date> tag: format and timezone

From: etienne studer <etienne.studer_at_canoo.com>
Date: 2003-05-22 20:41:17 CEST

Hi

1. I am not sure what mean the numbers after the 42 seconds...
<date>2003-04-30T10:01:42.349105Z</date>

2. Do I always get back the UTC time in the <date> tag?

I appreciate your help.

Best regards, Etienne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
> Sent: Montag, 19. Mai 2003 20:15
> To: kfogel@collab.net
> Cc: etienne studer; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svn log: date and time with --xml
>
>
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
> >"etienne studer" <etienne.studer@canoo.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Using 'svn log' without '--xml' gives me the correct time.
> Using 'svn log'
> >>with '--xml' gives me the GMT time. Does this mean that when
> using the xml
> >>format I have to know how many hours I am off GMT? Or is there
> another way
> >>how to get the local time?
> >>
> >>Using 'svn log' without the '--xml' option returns
> >>'...2003-02-24 17:35:24 +0100...'. -> correct
> >>
> >>Using 'svn log' with the '--xml' option returns
> >>'<date>2003-02-24T16:35:24.120656Z</date>' -> one hour off
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think so -- there's no "--local-time" option.
> >
> >But, I wonder why we use GMT for one and localtime for the other?...
> >
> >
> My guess would be that the XML format is supposed to be easily
> parseable, so it uses the raw timestamp that comes from the repo. "svn
> log", on the other hand, munges the timestamp into our human-readable
> format, which uses local time by default. And I think the current
> behaviour is correct. It is not "you" who must know the UTC offset, it
> is whichever program is parsing the XML.
>
> --
> Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
>
>

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