RE: Why $Id$ has Z - time? Configurable

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Monks, Peter wrote:

> I could be wrong, but it looks to me like Subversion is using ISO8601
> format [1] for the date/time, in which case the "Z" indicates that the
> value is in UTC (which is almost, but not quite, identical to GMT).
>
> AFAIK this isn't configurable, and I'm not sure whether allowing it to
> be configured would make sense (consider a chronologically distributed
> team, where each team member could be working on any file in the
> repository - which timezone should Subversion use for each file?).
>
This is correct, although UTC is sometimes referred to as "Zulu time (see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html).

One could still wonder why LastChangedDate uses local time while Id uses
UTC. I don't know the answer. And yes, it is hard-coded, so no
configurability there.

Regards,
//Peter

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Received on Mon Feb 7 21:10:54 2005