Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC

[Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

On 5 September 2015 at 01:12, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Would you consider dropping the TZ offset? If the script were to translate
> the DT to UTC, that'd remove some noise and shorten the line by 5.

+1

> dev-java/antenna               2015-09-03 13:45:07Z  monsieurp      b4215f4
>
> And I know what my offset is from UTC so I know the above example
> happened at 11:45am my time, but having to do more math on the others
> before figuring out my time is a little annoying. I can live with it,
> but I'm lazy.

I'm curious why the time part is even necessary, or at least,
necessary at that accuracy.
Day seems to be all that is necessary at most, and even then, you
could reduce that down to a single number ( because its assumed to be
from "now" to "a weekago" and the inference can be made, and maybe for
convenience, use "days ago", or somethig.

If you're needing the timestamps to try work out which commit
something happened, the SHA1 is going to prove far more useful at
that.


>dev-java/antenna               2015-09-03 13:45:07Z  monsieurp      b4215f4
dev-java/antenna               Sep 3, 13:45Z monsieurp      b4215f4



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