July 31, 2024
7:04 p.m.
On 2024-07-31 19:00, Tim Parenti wrote:
The "2023-09-21" only gives a precision of a day
What the original email doesn't make clear, is that the original timestamp has an accuracy of only a day. As I understand it, it's counting the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and dividing by 24*60*60. There's a similar issue in GNU ChangeLog entries, which have lines like "2015-04-03 Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>". Some projects want those dates to be in local time, others in UTC. Both approaches have advantages, and the usual tools to generate those lines typically come with options to let you pick the tradition you prefer.