[16704] in Athena Bugs
Re: What is Athena RCS using for a timestamp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Feb 12 19:36:52 1999
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:04:40 EST."
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:36:47 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The clock says it was 18:58. RCS says it's 23:58. This is on an
> Athena 8.2.17 Sun. Apparently using RCS from /usr/athena/bin.
RCS uses GMT timestamps (since a long time ago, although not since the
beginning of time), since not everyone checking in files is
necessarily in the same time zone.
Arguably rlog should display the timestamp in local time, but it
doesn't. And that probably wouldn't be an appropriate local
modification.
