Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zone

From: Andy Parkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:43:54 +0000

On Friday 2007 January 26 08:58, Andy Parkins wrote:

> This of course means that the --date argument to date is specified in
> local time, not UTC.  So when the hooks--update script does this:
>
> date=$(date --date="1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 $ts seconds")

Bugger.  This description is wrong.  I've shown the fixed version not the 
original.  This line should have read

 date=$(date --date="1970-01-01 00:00:00 $ts seconds")

Sorry - patch was fine, message needs that change to make sense though.

Andy
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