Subject: Re: git-fast-import

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:44:41 -0500

Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > 
> > Is <tz> /really/ expressed in minutes?  500 minutes is 8 hours 20 minutes.
> > 
> > I know what you mean, of course; and so would anyone reading it - so I suggest 
> > just dropping the ", in minutes" - as it's not true.
> 
> Agreed. It _is_ "in minutes", but it's in an oddish human-readable base-60 
> format. It's certainly *not* decimal, it's more like "two decimal digits 
> encode each base-60 digit in the obvious way".

What about this language?

	The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of
	seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is
	written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits.  The committer's
	timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset
	from UTC.  For example EST (which is typically 5 hours behind GMT)
	would be expressed in `<tz>` by ``-0500'' while GMT is ``+0000''.

-- 
Shawn.