[cvsnt] Re: timezone to use with update -D option?

[Tony Hoyle]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> It seems that update -D requires local time rather than UTC. I suspect it's
> the client's local time, but haven't had a chance yet to test this. 

I'm not sure.. the date parser is inherited from the old cvs (and 
predates even that I think).

> This seems to be the only place in cvsnt where local time is used. I think
> as such it would be worth it to mention this in the manual. (I'm not sure,
> but probably I'm not the only one surprised by this.) Since the command
> reference in the wiki is an immutable page, I couldn't add any comment
> there either.

Anyone can request write access to the wiki... it's locked down so I 
don't have to worry about spambots attacking it.

> Maybe this is the result of having a system developed on the Greenwich
> meridian... it might have been safer to put the UTC meridian somewhere in
> the Pacific :)

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Not my fault!! :)

Tony